The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-04-07 00:00:00

MONDAY.

TIAN QOUN AND LANPARD N THE INNIABINANTS ON
HITTINNUIT.—At the opening of the Court this morn.
ing Mr. Montagu Naith addressed the jury for the de
(radiate, end mid he Asould satisfy them that this
indictment meld not be suatained either In law or juatioe,
and that the parish was entitled to an acquittal; that
tbe road, in foot, had !mg been disused by the liable",
and that nobody wanted to um it except Mr. Lampard
and the people going to or routing from his mill. That
there was not mingle farmer from the whole neighbour-
hood now. eseept Rai worthy and another person
Mr. Hoelgrove wan waywarden of Heytesbury in 1836,
and during his time no repairs whatever were done to
Riairway-road. Never knew much repairs being done to
it, except pocking up the ruts epic, the bridge. Never
knew of material, put on the road exempt six years ago,
when Mr. Lampard we. purveyor; was present at the
vestry when the charge for this repair was diemseed.
Tbe charge we. objected to, and Mr. Lampard was told
that his accounts would Dot be pared if be attempted
to put none on the road any more. - Henry Blandford,
a surveyor of considerable experience, mid he had been
over the rood four or five times within the last six
weeks. It had not the slightmt indication of ever being
mooed, arid the depth of water upon it when the
waft were up, and the meadows were being irri-
cdted, was Ilse feet and upwards.---John Carpenter
been twice waywarden of Neytesbury. Two
years ago, Mr. Liimpard applied to him to
repair Me road, and • vestry wee comequertly sailed,
sad the read was ordered to be thrown up from the
sides to the middle. George Noble had knave the
road 43 years. Never mw any one use the road *meta
the farmers who had the land adjoining. Thomas
Bevan, the present occupier of Slater's farm, whkh
abate anon Riaeway, deposed that the road was quite
suSoirint for the purpose for which it was mod. Mr.
Smith than summed up, and Mr. Slade replied, Maras
tensing the whole affair as an audacious attempt on the
paii of the parish to evade their liability. The learned
Judge, in summing up, said there meld he no doubt
that the road bad been intended as • public road ever
since the award wider the &mime» Act In 1783, ant
left it to the jury to my first, whether the road wale •
proem state urrepair ; and &roundly, whether the
certificate of the surveyor appointed under the ludo-
awe Comiuiasioness, bad been duly signed banding the
care of the road over to tbe pariah in the usual way?
The jury being maids to agree were locked up between
three and four o'clock, and et • quarter to eight, being
still unable to agree, were discharged without giving a
verdict.

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Mi.. BUNN (EX teLTRIX), AND THONArI BUNN
SAUN (ICIECCTUR) r. THE CONIIDISIONZIUI 07
111.1D/oID-oN•AVON. - Kr. &demi Kinglike and Mr.
Lopes were counsel for the plaintiffs; attorney, Mr.
Spackmiui. Mr. Collier, Q.('., and Mr. Buller for the
defendants ; attorney, Mr. Slack. —This case was only
partly heard when the court rose. It was an action to
receiver neatly £lOO for services rendered to the Com-
minioners of Bradford.on.Avon. by the late Mr. Husk,
solicitor of that town. A considerable portion of the
amount was due previous to the year 1850, when Mr.
Rusk had not been appointed Clerk at a tred salary,
and the Statute of limitations was pleaded by the de-
fendants, who further alleged that they had no power
to make • retrospective rate for the purpose of meeting
the claim. The minute book of the Commissioners,
however, was produced by the plaintiffs, and from this
It would appear that in accordance with an order made
in 1858, instalmenta of the debt had been paid ea re-
cently as 1800. The mas had made but little progress
when the Court adjourned. Two other 01118011 a a
somewhat similar description depend on the issue.