The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-03 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCE—Jima 2.

Mop is lissoo.—Plioloro Lord OW Juries Ooribors
J notion Oroap•os. Biookbees, sod that.)

UMW MOM. -1113

-AND TSOV7IINIAL

Mr. Home Lloyd gybed on behalf et Mr. Jacob Meer
for s rale, call* apes the Metropolitan and Provincial
Bank to mister Mr. Jacob Kew ea a allasehoider. It aµ
peered that oe the 161/1 December, 1863, th app/Mant
purebred el Mr. filhaphens 10 roues in the book foe 1794,
who handed over the art nester on the 24th February. He
shorewards Imam& the trenater, but the company retuned
to register on the Found that they bads lien as the shares.
The orphient mad that if the bank had a Grim spinet
Bee plume they boldanhaient maranty far it besides these
gams.
Bale pealed.

COURT OF COMMON PLNAS.—Juirs 2.

Sittings in Baitoo.—(34‘cers Lord Chid Judea* Erie sad
Justices WiMints, Willis, sad Bytes.)

HOBBS V. NINNING.-THI 81211711 AND

The plaintiff in this ores owned some goods which were
on board the Peterhof when elm was seised by the Federal
maim, and he sued the defendant, as underwriter, upon •
policy of bennranoe, to reamer the mine of the goods. The
defendant pleeded moral plow in ures to the &Mica,
sad smog other the two following. The 7th plea was
that the plaintiffs goods were contraband of war, and
were shipped by the plaintiff, and Mews. JAM/
Wetherell and Co., to be imported into • port in
North Amerios which was than engaged in hostilities
with the United States ; that they were liable to seisms
by the cruisers ; that the ship carried goods and papers
Which rendered her liable to and that the loser oom.
pWned of by the plaintiff arose Irani the goods and ship
Wag is fact le seised. The Bth plea stated that the ship
and goods were carried into a port of the Untied States, in
accordance with the law of nations, and that the prise court
of New York determined that the ship and osrp were not
truly destined for Matentoras, as wee elated on be men,
but to some port in North Ameries, in violation of the law
of actions, and the ship and urge owes thenefeee adjedged
forfeited. Theme pleas were demurred to, and two natation
were raised for the court, whether the eirettenstascee stated
in the ith plea furnished • good defence to the action, and
whether the decision of the New York prise mart was
crecksim spurt the plaintiff.
Mr. Temple, Q.C., and Mr. Hammen appeared for the
plaintiff ;and Mir. Lush, Q.C., and Sir George Holman for
the defendant.

In the 4;Cres of some discussion it war stated that
wend were not pronely prepared to argue the 011/11 in
=macs of he having come oe sooner than wee ex-
; sad it was theore asked that it should be post.
pone&
Mr. Topple, as a news for so doing, mid that this cue
was one of a greet number of similar ones, as Ma good' on
board the Peterhoff were worth about 100,000 L, and it
would certainly startle the oommerreal public of England
if the deolion of the cout should be *pima the plaintiff.
Another noon for postponement was that the duision of
tlielrew York
possii be prize court bad been appealed against, sad
mravened.
thte case was at length struck out ; and it was understood
that most probably it would not be set down again until
Michaelmas term.

COURT 01? ILIOREQUICR.—Juzcz 2.
SECOND COURT.

Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westadaster.—(Bsdore Mr. Baron
Pigott sad Ccaimoa Juries.)
WISCIVAL V. WOOD.
•

This van an action to recover the value ci a stanhope and
harness.

lluddleaton, Q.C., Mr. Bernard, and Mt. Eyre Lld
were consume for the plaintiff ; Mr. Serjeant Salentine, Mr.
Serjeant Atkinson, and Mr. Martin were counsel for the
defendant

iil;.lloddleston, in stating the case to the jury, mid the
plaintiff is a tobeocciaist and • batting man on commission,
carrying on busies.' in Penton-street, Haymarket, and the
defendant lea solicitor in Dover-plan, New Kenticad. and
the action was brought to recover the value of • staohops
sad set of hareem, the property of the plaintiff. Tim
way the plaintiff became posimeed of the property was
this. A certain individ who styled himself Cap-
tain Logan, who, it will be recollected, brought
an action for his ejectment from an hotel at Scarborough,
and was now is coalman; quarters on the chirp of steal-
ing a watch from a lady is • railway carriage, in Augur*
last, drove up to the plaintiff's door in a !madame brougham,
with • high stepping hone sad elaborately decorated W-
ee= with silver mountings, and accompanied by a servant
with • cockade in his hat, sod asked him to lend him 701.
on the brougham end harness. The plaintiff seeing all
these emblems of dignity and title advanced the money and
placed the brougham and harness with a person named
Jackson, a livery-stable.keeper, as the plaintiff supposed,
carrying on business in the Gray's-inn-road. Captain Logan
called a mowed time on the plaintiff and obtained another
loan of 361. on the etsohope and harness in question, which
articles were also takes to Oray's-iee-rmicl, and ppat into
Jackson's custody. After Logan had base to h,
and it was known be was is custody for stealing a watch,
plaintiff made inquiries at the stables, and he then disco-
vered that the stanhope and harness had been taken away
and sold. Logan had purchased the harness, but had
borrowed the stanhope for tour years, with the option of
purchase, and paid the first year's hire, of Mr. King, ooaeli.
maker, Long-acre. Jackson and Mislay, the mea who sold
the stanhope and harness, were afterwards prosecuted by
Mr. Oakley, the real proprietor of the stables, and convicted
of another offence, and are now undergoing their motasee.
Some mouths afterwards plaintiff maw the defendant driving
the stanbope and min the harness. He claimed the pro-
' party, but the defendant refused to give them up, saying
he had purchased them from somebody, and afterwards
that he got them from Whitty.
The plaintiff am called, and deposed to the advance of
the money and the other facts mentioned in the learned
counsel's opening statement.
In cross-examusation he said he had been in occupation of
the house in Pantos-street about twelve months, but during
that time it had not been resorted to by females. It was
confined to the legitimate purposes of his business, He
first knew Logan about two or three yams ago, and he bad
had betting transaction with him. He did not advance
the money in order to allow Logan to pay the deposit to the
coschmaker. Whitty told him he had taken away the
Koper% and had been paid • sovereign for his trouble,
but he did not my by whom.
Proof was gives of the hiring of the staohope, sod the
purchase by Logan of the hareem. The pries of the latter
was 12 guineas, bat its expense was in.:reseed to 181. Bs., in
consequence of Logan having it extra ornamented with
silver-chased initials, silver-ahead rosettes, ho. The coach-
maker's assistant said that Iro's reform* was to some
army tailor in George-street, Hanover-square. Percival's
name was not mentiosed._ _

Attar some further evidence,
Mr. Berjeant BaDuthie enbroitted there was no evidence
of • demand, and that the mere driving the etanhope and
standing it at livery stables was not proof of 000 version.
Mr. Baron Pigott—lf you were to take my carriage out,
and drive it shout the streets, 1 shonki think that would be
conversion.

lierjeant Ballantine—No, my lord. I think every-
body she would have said you had lent it to me. (Laughter.)
Mr. Baron Pigott—That would be on the respectability of
your character. Without that it would be conversion.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, in addressing the jury for the
defendant, said that the turf vase truly British amusement,
and betting with some persona was a respectable transaction,
bat that the pings of persons who hung about tobacconists'
shops and public-houses, with ditty books and little bits of
pencils, eastineully making mudry notes, were generally
speaking the most disreputable vagabonds in the land, aad
therefore he called upon the jury to be very careful how
they received the plaintiff's and one of hie witasse's evi-
dence. If he proved to the jury that the defendant had
bought and paid fall value for the property he thought they
would ballet* before they deprived him of it en the evi-
dence of two such people. In December the defendant
bought the staahope and harness of Whitty, the agent of
Logan, both of whom had come to an uncomfortable end.
(laughtir.)
Mr. Baron Pigott said be did not see how a dealing with
the property after it had been pledged to the plaintiff get
rid of be lies.

Wbitty, who had been brought up from the House of
Detention, where he was uodergoiog a senteoce of two
aura, was Galls& He said that Lope authorized him and
Jackson to sell the property, and that on a Seaday morning
in December they sold it to Mr. Valeatine Wright. They
were, in fact. Logan's stables, be having taken the lease of
tho promisee. Masora. Oakley sad Co. afterwards had the
premises, and Jackson woe their servant.
The jury her interposed, and said they were disposed to
believe the plaintiff's statement. upon which
, The learned judge said, unless the defendant could con-
tradict that, their verdict mast be for the plaintiff.
The jury then returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 4514
subject to the return of the property.

stamina r.

This wan an actio;to roma et---thesam4 150 i. on a bill of
exchange. The defendaet, amongst others, pleaded that
the bill wee obtained by trend.

Mr. Watkin Williams was counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr.
F. H. Lewis for the defendant.

The plaintiff a . wine sterchast end retreehmest room
keeper, .ad the defeodant is 111 attursey is the Oily. 'n.
plaintire ease wee that be took the bill from • Mr. Beejestio.
whom he bad arrested one ca. :a. in payment of hie debt wad
costs.

The Wince was this. Benjamin sailed oa Whitehmek
sad offend him soon port mar. Whitehurst said be had
Do mosey with which to bay port wine, and that he emoted
some mosey. Upon that Benjamin mid In would get him
some, and it was arranged that Benjamin should pt him a
1001. bill discounted, the latter sayng he dare say be could
make a sovereign from each on the transaction. He wean
away aid returned, saying there wee as objectioa to
the 1001. bill, and that they meat be drawn is
two of 501., sod Benjamin suggested that Whitehant nad
his clerk should draw upon each other. That Whitebunt
objected to, sad at length it wee arranged that Ilitsjamia
should draw them and then defeedaat swept them. That
was due, and Benjamin took away the bills. He retuned
a day or two of and said the proposed diseonater