OF THE CASE OF Trespass & Assault and Battery, WHEREIN JOHN EVANS WAS PLAINTIFF, And Ellis Yarnall, Richard Humphreys, Jonathan Willis, Thomas INCLUDING AN INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT DISCUSSION RESPECTING THE DISCIPLINE OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS; AND CONTAINING THE VALUABLE SPEECHES OF THE COUNSEL, NISI PRIUS FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, BEFORE THE HON. H. H. BRACKENRIDGE, One of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, AND A SPECIAL JURY. In which case, Messrs. Condy, Levy, Ingersol, and Tilghman, were of BY JOSEPH R. HOPKINS. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR P.BYRNE, LAW BOOK-SELLER. 1810. Be it remembered, that on the twenty-sixth day of December, in the thirty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1810. Joseph R. Hopkins, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the following words, to wit: "Report of the case of Trespass & Assault and Battery; "wherein John Evans was Plaintiff, and Ellis Yarnal, Richard "Humphreys, Jonathan Willis, Thomas Savary, Isaac Par"ish, Caleb Carmalt, Benjamin Kite, John James, David Bacon, Abraham Leddon, John Elliott, Hannah Clark, Ro"bert Haydock & Susanna his wife, and Caleb Pearce & "Jane his wife, were defendants. Including an interesting "and important discussion respecting the Discipline of the "religious Society of Friends; and containing the valuable "Speeches of the counsel, revised from the short-hand notes ❝ of T. LLOYD. Tried at a Court of Nisi Prius, for the City ❝and County of Philadelphia, before the hon. H. H. BRACK "ENRIDGE, one of the associate Justices of the Supreme "Court of Pennsylvania, and a Special Jury. In which case, "Messrs. Condy, Levy, Ingersol, and Tilghman, were of "counsel for the Plaintiff, and Hallowell, Rawle, and Lewis, "were of counsel for the defendants. By JOSEPH R. "HOPKINS." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, intitled "an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and also to the act entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefit thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvanią. HAVING heard much respecting the Case herein Reported, previous to its trial, and (with a view to satisfy my own mind upon matters connected therewith) having carefully noted the proceedings; and believing it a case involving the interests of all religious bodies, and especially connected with the welfare of the respectable Society of Friends; some of whose male and female members were more immediately concerned in its result; I am induced to present it to the public, as well from a conviction of its importance, as also to afford an opportunity of judging correctly upon the subjects connected therewith, it being a case in which many serious points are considered, some new principles ably discussed, and which from its novelty cannot fail to be interesting. For the Speech of Mr. Lewis, I am indebted to a literary friend, whose assistance, on this and other occasions, I am proud to acknowledge. Those of Messrs. Levy, Rawle, and Ingersoll, have been revised from the manuscript of the Stenographer, and the evidence I have collected from a review of the notes of all the counsel: thus I have endeavoured to make a full and impartial Report of this very singular trial: If I have succeeded in that, my object is gained. Dec. 17, 1810. J. R. H. |