[legal rights of women – money due on goods ]

Jane Muckle v. Charles Armytage

Court of Civil Jurisdiction

  Bent J.A., 10 July 1812

Source: Court of Civil Jurisdiction Proceedings, 1788-1814, State Records N.S.W, 5/1108 (case no. 72)[1]

Jane Muckle of Sydney                         Plaintiff

            and

Charles Armytage of Sydney                  Defendant

Writ for ₤3..8..9 sterling for freight primage and Average due and payable upon & in respect of certain goods carried and conveyed by the Plaintiff in & on board of a certain ship or vessel for defendant at his request.

The Defendant appears by George Chantrey [?] his agent duly authorised.

It appeared that Jane Muckle the nominal Plaintiff , erroneously took out the writ in this cause in her own name instead of in the name of one Archibald McKellup , with whom the contract if any, was made _.

The Court therefore dismissed the suit.

[1] See Kercher, Debt, Seduction & Other Disasters: The Birth of Civil Law in Convict NSW (1996), 72 – 73; Also cited as Jane Muckle v Archibald McKellup , 10 July 1812, 5/1108-72.