The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-16 00:00:00

Court Ictimo.

Legal.

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At the Sligo Assizes Miss Mary Henry, aged 23, has '
just obtained a verdict for £l,OOO for breach of proinise
of marriage against a gentleman aged 45, worth £2,000
or MOOD a•year. Mr. Whiteside, M.P., was speetelly
retained by the defendant.
At the Hertford assizes oil Friday an action for
breach of promiae was tried before Mr. Jiatice Wit
limns. The fair plaintiff, named Anne Hedge, was
mid to be about 19 )cars of a‘e, and eossessed of a
considerable share of personal charms. Her faithless
swain, Mr. -Barnett, a farmer in a *mall way, enjoyed
the advantage of having come into the world between
forty and fifty years Infuse the lady whose affections
ha had thus trifled with. As a toolatiuni to her
wounded feelings the jury awarded Mini Hedge the stun
of Lino in the shape of damages.
FALAN Inruisoenter.—ln the Court of Common
Plea. on Wednesday, Lieut. Allen brought an action
for illegal imprisonment against the Duke of Cambridge.
It will be recollected that Lieut. Allen whilst serving
in India, killed his servant, who was An Indium and ,
wee eehteneed to 4 years imp konment at Agra, on a
, charge of manslaughter. He was brought hone and
I confined at Weedon, and Newgate. The warrant on
I which he had been brought to this country and kept in
! confinement was held by the Court of Queen'e Bench to
Ibe illegal, and he was diacharged from custody. He
now sued for damages. The jury returned a verdict for
' the plaintiff, damages 1:200.
Mr. TURNBULL AND TIIE Paorrsr.ter ALI.IANCR.
The important acthm brought by Mr. Turnbull against
Mr. Bird, the secretary of the Protestant Alliance, was
. brought to a close in the t'ourt or t• ttttt muo Pleas on
Wmlnealay, utter a three lay' o trial. The trot coma
, of the declaration alleged that the plaintiff, being
. Calendarer of State Papers, and having foreign dote.
inents entrusted to his core, the defendant published of
him, on the 19th January, that ho had an opinion in
favour of Roman Catholics aud Jesuito, and against the
Protestants; that the Master of the Rolla had found it
necessary to set three Protestants to watch over
performance of hi* duty, and, in fact, that there was
danger of the documents entrusted to lint being
defaced, mutilator!, or destroyed by him. The eecond
count, which was founded upon the letter of the 24th
January, alleged that persons interested in the Roman
Catholic religion had anntilated books in the Bodleian
Library ; and it then alleged the danger of the foreign
documents entrinted to the plaintiff being destroyed by
him by fire in the room in which he sat alone to perform
him duty ; at least it alleged that documents may have
disappeared by the aid of a man aitting alone in • room
where a fire was; and the end of that count charged
that the defendant intended to say that the plaintiff
wag capable of, and likely to, mutilate, deface, and
. destroy those documents. Lord Chief Justice Erie
; summed op with great care; and the jury, after nearly
. 4 hours' deliberation, returned a verdict for the
defendant.
Tux SMILTHURNT ArrAlß.—On Thursday Sir C.
Cresawell delivered judgment on the question relating
to the will of Isabella Banks, which had been argued
at considerable length some short time since. Dr.
Thomas Sniethurst propounded the will, but probate
was opposed by two sisters of the testatrix on the
ground that Sinethurot had been convicted of felony,
and sentenced te twelve months' imprisonment, and
had thereby forfeited his claim. The learned judge
decided that the plaintiff was not deprived of Ins
rights as legatee, but was fully entitled to prove the
will.