The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-06-25 00:00:00

WINBORN6 COUNTY COURT.

WIDIONSDAT : Before E. EVIBUIT. Esq., Judge.
Of the plaints left for bearing at tbia alert (bet
30 and.4o).tLe following were tbe only ono. of interim

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Warland v. J. Ilatneey.—Claim 17s. 51., baloseie
of aiso net for drapers goods —Defeo 'ant denied Laving
either given any order or received the genela.—lt
peered that the account commenced In 1858, and the
last payment was made in 1862 Tbe goods wets Mealy
oht.losid by a Mrs. Ooineas, housekeeper to the &i-
-mplant, who appears to have pas.ed an bis wife, bat it
was statisfactorly proved that the defendant agignow•
'edged the agency by rehiring the *miiff to her for
part payment of the siemens, mid his Honour gave a
verd et for the plaintiff at 4, per month.
ifieshach Who r. Henry 10a —This
was se 'intim to recover the above sem, which the de-
fendant h.d forced plaintiff to may for damage by a
bores del:mitering in his field.—after bearing the
eviden e, oh oh allowed that the defendaat'a Nome were
in a ,!il.pidatol state, his Honour gave a verdut for the
plaint if fie ff.
Wilhem Whitfield r. Henry Wlls.—This was •
similar case and the same nub, was made.
H. PhiHiatt r. John Rtymond.—Cleite El (or •
bnile•.—The d f-nce ma. that the Plaintiff Weed sad
did take a.. for the •rti,l.9 two years before, and also
expressed her tatisfactim with the arriagement made at
the defendant's father's death, of having a pig and five
etooks of bane aa payment of a debt due to bor. —Verde*
for tie 4-lenient. . .

John Humphries v. 0. lirry.—This leas • elaim foe •
month.. imago,- Th. pleini4 bad been emplop-d by
Mr. Urry, machinist, Wimborne, for nine month*. at
2e. per week, and it was for the fin, mon•h's SerViell kb,
elcim wits marle.—An application for adjournment was
merle by the defendant's eters, on the ironed that Mr-
Urry could not attend —Hie Honour refused the ap-
plication, and baring beard the plaintiff's mother so id*
bebalf,gare a verdict for the amount cdaimed,to be p.id
forthwith. _ _ .

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Bangacrrcrix—la Re Water Allen, formerly a
baker, residing at Lytehett —Mr. Moore appeared for the
bankrupt, and there being no opposing creditor the order
of discharge was granted. Bankrupt attributed his
difficulties to tom sustained by lire.
In Re Stephen Pounds. —This bankrupt, dereribed as •
farmer and timber dealer, residing at Holt Wood, in the
parish of Wiiriborne. animated for his Anal examinstion
and to claim his order of discharge. He less strongly
opposed by Mr. Tanuer, aiding on behalf of Mrs. North.
over, his late landlady, to whom be owed half.. year's
rent —Mr. Moore appeared on his belialf.-11r. Tanner
stated the grounds of the oprositioe to be as follows
Two days before the balf.year's net was slim, the whole
of the bankrupt'. effrots were offered for sale by auction
by Mr. Saunders, of Ringwood. The rale was sailed fat
one o'cloirk, and was completed by haff.past one. The
only bidder was the bankrupt's son-in-law, omega Hags,
• foreman in a brisk-yard at Bournemouth. The lisle
only realised i:37 94.. end the stook and Dearly the whole
of the effects had remained on promises rented by the
bankrupt ever sines. Mr. Tsnner then read a list of
the things offered for sale, with a view of showing that
if the) had beso properly disposed of they would have
realised a areas demi mere. He them examined the
bankrupt et some length, and elicited that some of the
Hoek bad been sold for the pureliener at.. 0111•11 higher
rale than be bought Is fee at the isle—The beakrunt
rivaled that be received anything from his eon-in-law fee
managine the property, and on being asked bow be
Brod, said that there was a little Boar left in the heels
sad a few ether thin.. He attributed his beekrupter
to being obliged to give up the land width to. rested at
Mrs. Northers,, after expending a good deal of mosey
on it in the shape of labour, missuring, earl drsiciag.—
Mr. Sunders, eactleeser, was examined •• to the gray
1110 sale was eatidested. He stated that it was the
most extraordinary sale be had ever been engaged In,
and at being asked by the Sage for an explanation,
elated that when be got there, there were not more than
SO parents preseat, sad they were obi. it
That there iinia not.., than three bouss-jleleparehasers,
and that though be obiroted to going on with the sal*,
the haakrup, gold the things mast be sold without re-
serve. With bet tree or two easeptines the stook and
farm implemeate were purchased be Milea. the see-In-
law, and the fareitare was sold room by room instead
of by lots. Tb• sale was over Is oboes Ig boar.—
Kr. Moore, on behalf of the bankrupt, riabisitted that
be was obliged to sell off his stock on aosount of having
to give op the land he bad rented of Mrs. Northectr,
who ought to have beim the last person to or pus him,,
seeing that through his labour, and the mosey he bed
expended on it. It was math improved, and the in-
coming tenant was to pay a hither rental. He them
reviewed the Goaded of the bankrupt in the Mee, and
sentended that arlist be Irmi dose was pettedly fair and
upright, that nettles' bed been proved to warrant the
charge which had beim sada against him, and that,
therefore, he was entitled to hie order of dischants.—
His Hoarser said, this is one of the most serious ewe
which have ever some before me. The question I hero
to seaside, is whether or n the bthkrupt has cote.
witted as gross • fraud as was ever eommitted under the
Bankrupt*, het, or whether the sale of his effects was
• tonsi.flde sale, and I must say. from the (widows
brought before me, that I 'sewn some to any other toe.
elusion than that the bankrupt has been pith, ef •
fraudulent transaction and a gross sidedenteanour. His
Honour thee reviewed the whole of the evidence, and
especially aommenteid on that given by the aareionser,
, sod then said, I fear I shall only be too lenient in not
seeding you to prison. If I sent you for trial you would
be liable to three years' imprisonmeet, 1111 0611'••••
for not doing no is that it apogee to me you have bren
, rather hardly dealt with by your landlady, but It 6 quite
I impassible for me to allow you 10 pan year ••••11•••
! tioa, and I rotas* to grant roe your distillate.