The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-12-10 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT.

HOLCEOFT v. BLAND AND Co.—At the County
Court. on Thursday, before Sir Rupert Kettle, I
judge, Mr. Perry made an application for a new
trial en the ground that the jury gave a verdict
against the weight of evidence. Mr. Seriven, the
aeisountant, wad agreed upon to go through the
books, and had examined them from July Ist, 1878
to June 18th, 1881, and found that Mr. Holcroft
had been over paid. Mr. Waldrou said that he was
not satisfied with the accounts and asked his
Honour not to grant a new trial, but for the Court
to appoint an accountant. His Honour said he
would go through the accounts himself. It would
no take him mole than ten minutes. The best,
cheapest, and moat honourable thing to do would
be for the defendants to settle it. The case was
then adjourned.
ALLEN v. TURNEY.--Tbis was an action brought
by plaintiff, William Allen. glove cutter, again-t
William J. Turney and Henry Turney, leather
manufacturers of this town, to recover the sum of
£25, for alleged wrongfulpismissal.—Mr. Bentley,
of Worcester, appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Stokes
defended.—Mr. Bently, in opening the case, .said
that plaintiff was by trade a glove cutter, and for-
merly lived at Yeovil, Somersetshire. In May,
1878, plaintiff entered into an engagement to work
for defendants, whieh was duly signed, the contract
teing for three years at a salary of 255. per week.
There was a clause in the agreement for the defend-
ants to have power to dismiss him for any miscon-
duct. A second agreement was made when plain-
tiff agreed to teach apprentices. On May 28th the
plaintiff received a note from defendants, giving him
14 days' notice, which he contended was a wrongful
dismissal and submitted that plaintiff was entitled
to some damages He believed that a quantity of
gloves had been returned to defendante, but they
had been cut out of hard leather which was given
out by Mr. Henry Turney, and that it was no fault
of plaintiff. He believed that it was necessary to
have soft leather as they were used principally by
housemaids.—Mr. Stokes, for defendants admitted
the facts of the agreement, but alleged plaintiffs
negligence and his inability to perform his part of
the contract. Plaintiff, cross-examined by Mr.
Stokes : Did enter into aa agreement with the de-
fendants and a second engagement in May 1880.
There were no complaints made against me by either
of the defendants, and I am willing to carry out the
terms of agreement to the bast of my ability. I
was engaged to cut out gloves and punch them, and
hand them over to be stitched. When I received
orders I did pack the gloves up and send them
away. Mr. Henry Turney never complained of my
had work. He did say that he had received several
letters complaining about the bad work and read the
letter to me. I did promise to look better after:the
work. Defendant did not complain of my own work,
but complained of the bad way the gives were
made. Defendants did net point wit 30 dozen of
gloves:defective in the cutting. His Honour re-
marked that plaintiff was originally engaged as a
clove cut ter.—Mr. Stokes said he was going:to prove
that the cutting itself w as bad.—Cross-examination
centinued : Do not know that defendants had more
than one thousand pairs of gloves rettuned through
bad cutting. The leather was put out by Mr. Henry
Turney. Did cut the leather bad or good. Never
had notice to leave before.—His Honour Euggested
that some gloves should be produced. Re-exam-
ined : There were in all five glove cutters. Since
January myself and two apvrentices. The Judge
remarked that the defendants ought not to have
signed such an agreement.—At this stage the Court
adjourned. and we believe that an arrangement was
come to between the parties.
JUDGMENT SUMMONSLI3.—At the County Court on
Thurs.lay, a consderable time was occupied with
the judgment summonses, of which there wore 140
on the list. At the close of them Mr. Stokes re-
marked that his friends and he had been discussing
whether it was not desirous to have a special day at
Stourbilage for judgment summonses, It appeared
as if Stourbridge was a centre for such cases.—His
Honour said they had tried having a special day at
Dudley for judgment summonses, and it failed.—
tr. Stokes: We hardly have any judgment sum-
monses at Dudley. Where there is one at Dudley
-there appears to be twenty here.—His Honour said
the objection to a special day was that people hav-
ing other court business complained that they wculd
have to come twice.—The subject then dropped.

A recent writer in cur lcal papets has wisely
observed that" one of the follies of the age is to
buy dear -Wines and Spirits." Another folly is to
suppose that buying from those who make the
largest return of duty is buying them in the
cheapest market. The Merchant who pays duty
upon thousands of gallons, pays in exact propor-
tic.n to the retailer clearing a single ca:k. A groat
profit must be gained to cover enormous expenses
of Itrge tusiucss piemises, cost of advertising, and
an allowance of profit to the Agent, greater in
many instances than taken by the respectable
Merchant. To buy cheap is to buy where but one
profit is made, and we cannot bAter illustrate our
argument than by p-inting out the way in which
our townsmen, Messrs J. Rutland and Son, of 63
High Street, have opened up the trade. We have
no hesitation in saying that 25 per cent. is now
saved by their bringing the producer and, the con-
sumer together, over the prices paid a few years
ago. and a trial will fully bcar out our assertion.
budley Herald, December 24th 1880.
ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CORN Excitaxme.—An
entertainment, consisting of songs, recitations, and
readings, was given on Monday evening last, under
the auspices of the Working Man's Institute. The
room was well filled, the chair being occupied by
Frank Evers, Esq., J.P Messrs. S. Simms, Sen.
and Jun., opened the entertainment with a Piano-
ferte Duett, "Symphony" (Haydn), which was
played with great taste and feeling, eliding loud
applause. The glees by the Kinver Glee Union
were all well rendered. The singing of Miss M.
Crane was exceedingly good. Miss G. Smith pos-
sesses a very good voice, which was heard to great
advantage in the song "Darby and Joan." Mr. J.
GiLani has a remarkably riood tenor voice, and his
singing of "True till Death," and the "Midship-
mite" gave the audience a great treat, and the
rounds of applause he rec3ived were well deserved.
The recitations of Mr. A. B. Wren, "Charge of the
Light Brigade" and "Claude Melnotte's Apology—
Lady of Lyons," were given in big usual masterly
style, and were well received. The duett "Very
Suspicious,.' by Miss G. Smith and Mr W.
Parkes, caused roars of laughter. Mr. S. Simms,
Sen., accompanied the performers in a very satis-
factory manner. The following is the programme—
Pianoforte duett, "Symphony," (Haydn) Messrs.
S. Simms, Sen. and Jun.; glee, by the Kinver
WOO 11iozi, and Mos W. Yak% awl Mean,

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