The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-06-28 00:00:00

BROMBGBOVE.

Corim Conan—At the Conti bald on Monday,
before Mr. B. Harrington, Judge, Police-sergeant Chas.
Workmen, for whom Mr. Housman appeared, sued Ed.
Broomfield, of Sidemoor, nailer, for the sum of £4 IS,
64 under the following circumstances : At the Worcester-
shire Easter Quarter Sessions Broomfield was acquitted
upon • charge of fowl stealing, and at the Bromegrove
County Court in April he sued Workman for the sum
of is 64, for the loos of the fowl's flesh which wee being
cooked when taken away by the police. A verdict was
then given for defendant, with the ordinary costs. Mr.
Housman, who appeared for Workman in that cue,
forwarded his costs to the Registrar for taxation, aa
between attorney and client ; thew, the Registrar taxed
at Rd 13. lid, for which amount Workman, under Mr.
Boatman's advice, now sought to recover from Broom.
field, as by the 9th and 10 Victoria, cap. 95, sec. 91, it
is enacted that ' No attorney shall be entitled to have or
recover any sum of money unless the debt or damage
claimed shell be more than five pounds—Mr. Housman
in snpport of the summons, contended that Workman
was eutiiled to recov,r from Broomfield the amount of
co,. a. ;axed by t. ltegiarar between attorney and
client, in pursuance f sec. 06 of 19 and 20 Victoria,
cap. 108, enich roicts that •• Where in any action the I
debt or damage claimed shall not exceed £2O, an attorney
@ball out he cut,tled to recover from his client any :
farther rots or charges in the conduct of such snit
than those mentioned in the 91st see, of the 9th and
lUth Vic. c. 95, unless upon taxation of costs the registrar
be satisfied by writing under the hand of the client, that
he has agreed to pay further costa or charges, and in '
such cue the Registrar may allow any further costa or
charges not exceeding the amount which may have been
so agreed to be paid." Workman did sign an agreement
to pay the further costa.—Defendant was not represented
and was unable to argue the points adduced by Mr.
Housman—Hi, Honour said that if the Legislature in.
tended the 36th section to be construed in the manner I
Mr. Housman pat it in conjunction with see. 91 of the
9th and 10th Vic. cap. 95, they had very loosely carded
it, and he should order a non-suit to be entered, re-
marking that the proper course to adopt would have
been to ate the Registrar upon his entering up jadg.
ment for eosts, and if the record was in his opinion not
correct, to apply to the Court to make it so. Mr. Hous-
man then applied:to the Judge to amend the record. His
Honour, after caref ally perusing the different statutes
mentioned by Mr. Housman as hearing upon the ease,
said be would take time to carefully consider the ap-
plication, and give his decision at the next Court.

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