The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-05-19 00:00:00

Somersetobirr.

PROM E.—Coo/err Coorr.—The only eases of
public interne heard at the May sitting of the
County Court for this district were the following :
Barber v. Bray. —This..., which was oar of a very
peculiar nature, occupied the Court as.. hours. In
order properly to explain it we must go book some
years. In August, 1859, Mr. Barber, • milkman
residing in Frame, became embarrassed, and exe-
cuted a deed of siesignment to two of his ansiosners.
Mr. John Bray, • baker of this town, was esewag the
creditors, and he refined to meant* the deed. In
order to obtain his agressasut Barber undertook to
; him £lO in addirloa to the dividend which might
,asa. and signed a note for that anionat. Now it
is obvious that this note, as between Barber 'sad
Bt. y, could not be enforced, as it offered fraudulent
to Bray over other creditors. The mote
was endorsed to John Spencer, of London, Bray'.
brother•in-law, who demanded payment of it from
Berber. The latter, it would eppaer, denied having
given Bray any bill for ZIO, alleging that what he
had given him was • blank signature, which he
understood to be simply a memorandum as to another
mutter. A writ of the Comma Plans was served
on Berber, end the Time was seat down for trial
before the Uoder4lheriff of Wilts, at Chippenham.
Barber's defines then was that the endenement wen
a fraudulent one. Jedgmeet mama for the defen-
dant Barber, and Sponger, being arrested for the
coma, beanie bankrupt, and thus the costs fall upon
Barber, although he had obtained jodgment in hie
finer. lie now therefore seed Bray, the original
bearer of the note, for the eosin £6O, be had W-
ound ia defending himself from the minesquenom
of hie fraudulent endorsement A Isegthened legal
argument, as to the right of Barber to bring this
adieus spinet Bray, instead of spinet flpeorer, took
e;x:lt the outset of the ones ; and his Horror, the
-tar (P. A. Nadtli, req..) reserved the
prink The facie were thee gone into; but here
mlties beset the plaintiff's case at every step.
Mr. Bettie= was fer the plaintiff, arvi Pk. Nan
-be the dedurdent The learned banister took lop!
objefilien le everything that had ocourred at the
at the firmer trial, untif the bill was produced; and
Spencer was then celled to produce the bill, but,
declining to be mien until he wad paid his expunge,
which Mr. Bertram derailed doing, another attempt
was made to go en with the ease ; but ultimately
Mr. Bertram Misted to be nonesited, and that coarse
was eventually adopted. The case excited consider-
able interest.

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LAID AOILICITLTOZAL SOCUITY. —On Wedoesday a
leesting at the sommittee,appoiateci some time lime
to make preliminary anangensente with a view to
iadatiag the Bath sad West of Ragland Agri.
oultural Society to hold their meeting lor 1864 in
that city. was bald at the Geildhall, J. Bates., Bay,
in the chair. The piaci* oh)** of the meeting
ems to oonsider the mimes by wbith subscriptions
might be obtaisal he defraying the s.oroz.
plasm and for whirl' the society' require tM a
valuate. Amid be gives by the city. about £3OO
had been sabscribed, fames Dania. Raq., having
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