The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-11-20 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT.

TOMDAT.—Before Mr. F. J. Smith, Recorder of
Margate (Deputy-Judge), is the abalones of Mr.
&dant flodal•Atkloson, through illnees.
AU red Hill v. Jeal.--Olaim for balance of
amount El 2a. 91, for groceries, &a, supplied.—
Defendant disputed some of the It. —Judgment for
the plaintiff; payment 5.. • month.
Messrs. T. and H. Bamootba ) v.
William Payne-Claim for goods„—(Dorchesterar. A. H. Look
asked for an adjournment Defeodant pleaded easy.
meat, and his client was unfortunately absent from
Dorchisater.—Hia Honour treated the riPurnmsot
Is LIPOIDATION.—/le Robert Greenwood.—Mr.
Greenwood appeared t undergo an examination as to
bia affairs, by Mr. Trevor Davis.. of Sherborne, who
appeared for the trustee, Mr. Zill wood Miliedge.—Mr.
R. N. Howard appeared for the debtor, had Mr. S.
Percy Street for the purchasers of the estate. -Prom
the evidmos it appeared the debtor carried on bun-
ors as • stone merchant and monumental meson at
rortlaad and Visynsooth, haring boeght the boldness'*
btu et a agi. 1.70600 R 106 um no Plea
oat:two-hi Azim, 0, the liabilines amounting t
£4,900, the estimated assets being noo. The estate
bad sines been sold for Elie°. Of the £4,900 • proof
of 0,500 was put in by the debtor's mother, and the
enquiry chiefly dealt with this amount. It was shown
that when the debtor started in business his mother had
a life interest In certain property in Yorkshire, which
she sold for £2,500, and at her death this amount was
to revert to the children, who, at the time the debtor
started in business, were lire in number. £l,OOO of
this sum was advanced to the debtor at the time he
cousammaird hominess, and the remaining £1,500 at ter-
wards, with the consent of the faintly.—ln answer to
in:ses now, be stated be had agreed t pay his mother
00 a year as long as she lived, in oonsideration of
edemas. At the setae time, he minute nod it
arm • loan, and sot • gift. —ls the course of the
egamisation it transpired that the husband of one if
the *ten had commenced • ohanarry 'nit against him
for her *hare of the 82,500, but that this parson had
gone to Australia. The debtor woe closely examined
is to his dealings with the bank; and Mr. G. Eliot
tom of the partners) also Rirrideoce.
HJO Om:A—G. J. 11 (builder) Henry
Ewing Mills (flehatoppe.) et MO lls. for work,
labour, and materiala.—Mr. T. 0 nista appeared for
the plaisriff and Mr. Edward Barnett for the defend-
ant. —The amount was admitted, but the defendant
denied the liability.--Mr. Gr• said up till March
last he carried es bushman in Da•eter. In 1878 be
erosive& lastruotions from Mrs. Kills to pot a window
in the home adjoining the Railway Tavern for • fish
shop. He carried out the work, and pat the name
enry Mills " over the door. In the year 1881 be
mocked further isetrootiooe to remove that window
Into another house, the other side of the Railway
Tavern. Robert George Hibbs, was swaging the fish
bosisem for hire. King, who was also carrying on
business in High East.street, the shop to South-
street being • breach establisitmest. After @carrying
on today= about three years. Hibbs rave up the bones
and took another near, and this Wag whoa he had
instructions to remove the window from on. shop to
another. He had never had any order from Hibbs.
Hilted bad Arab from the dtfeorlaate,and it had been pot
Vathis amount. Defendant bad on more
case occardos said it made no difference
which shop he had the Bsh from. He rendered
an account of work done la 1878 to Mae. iLllJs
on 7th February. 1881, and the second account
wee rendered on Nth January, 1882. DitrinLt;
alterations Mr. and Mn Mills were frequentlye
and they appeared to be engaged in the badness, an
be had area Ash seat from one shop to the other
frequently. In 1881 whoa Hibbs filed ids petition he
(plaintiff) was scheduled as a creditor. He wee offered
a dividend, which be refused, on Use ground that he
had no am vont there. After this be saw defendant;
he ease to plaintiff's Aloe about the amount, when be
said he had paid • great deal of money from first to
last on Kibbe' amount, and he supposed he should
have to pay this. Plaintiff again positively asserted
he bad never received an order from Hlbba—Orose.
examined by Mr. Burnett: Mr. Mills had never given
instructions himself, but Mr.. Mills, whom he termed
• men cypher in the affair' managed the business.
Mrs. Gregory had not opened an amount with Hibba ;
them was • book for each shop, but whether it was
• matter of convenience be did not know.—Mr.
Berson inked for the trade pass-book, but Mr.
Gregory explained it was left at the shop.—Mr.
Burnett said it was handed to Mr. Coombe with the
other books, but this Mr. Coombs denied.—By the
Judge: Over the first shop was the name " Henry
Mi 11.," but he bed no Instructions to put a
name over the MO ,nd shop.—Mr. Burnett
said he admitted the 1878 account, when Mills
carried on the businem in the house adjoin-
ing the Railway Tavern.—Prederlok Medway
said he was • bricklayer in the employ of
Mears. R. Davis and Son, and was for 29
Yeetn In Mr. Gregory's employ. Is 1881 he took out
s shop fr 'lst from the north side of the Railway
Tavern sad put it to the hones on the south stk.
While the work was ia progression Mr. and Mn.
Mills came there, the latter frequently. Mn, Male
gams him ordem for certain alterations in the work.
While be was firing • marble slab he required •
plumber, ea Mn. Kills said dm would pat one, and
she went to Ma Mutford, who sent up ens of his men.
Be had never received thy orders from Hibbs,
although he 0,00 Is and ont.—Orromexamined: Be aid
not know be was working for Hibbs. Mr. Mk
never gave him soy instructions in doing the work,
but Mrs. Mills did. GIMP Smoot, labourer.
aorroborated. He bad worked at both lish shops in
8 'oth-street. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mille sum there
doting the work. and gave instructions to Medway to
alter • marble ebb. Hibbs was in and out, but be
gave no ordere.—Gi•orus Malted said he was •
Plumber, living in Dorchester. He remembered
Mrs. Mills giving him instructions at her
hones in High Eastatreet to do some work
at the fish *hop in South-street. and Mr.
Mills was present. She said she had taken •
larger hones in South-strert, where she Jemmied to
remove the boalemes carried on at the present shop.
She said there would be alter:Woes required, for which
she bad seen Mr. Gregory and given him order' to do
It, and he (wither) was to be engaged to do the
plumb's( work. Whilst be was executing the work
Mr. Mk mane on the premises. They had converse-
dons an rations matters, and on 000 0100gat 110 said
oa I yes know Wee about it than I do. Mr.
Mottord—do it aa cheap as you possibly csa."--Orme•
examined by Mr. Buroett : This was in Jose, 1881.
Re bad a pretty good memory. He was scheduled as
one of Hibbs' creditors, but he did not accept the
composition. He had never known
Barnett then addressed the jury for the defence, sod
maid Hoary flanined Mills, who ssM
_he was • fa-
me orryiag beldam la Mgh isaiviteeek