The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-22 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivEurooL, Au°. 21

Hoiddms v. Cams..
This was a special jury case. The plaintiff is a cot-
ton spinner at Freston, and the defendant a bleacher at
Halliwell, near Bolton. The present action was brought to
recover compensation for damage done by the defendant to
• quantity of sheeting belonging t. the plaintiff. From the
evidence produced it appeared ftt in I'3lo the plaintiff sent
• sample of a new kind of sheeting to Messrs. Outram and
Co., of London, who approved of it, and for which a good
demand was found. The consequence was a large
order to the plaintiff for the same kind of sheeting.
The whole of the order was sent to the defendant to be
bleached, from thence by him to Messrs. l'iekford and Co.
at Manchester, who transmitted the packages to Messrs.
Outram and Co. of Landon. In February of this year, a
customer to whom Messrs. Outram and Cu. had sold a por-
tion of the sheeting, complained to them of the article
being damaged, and returned what had been purchased.
This led to an investigation of the stock, which was found
to have received damage of • threefold character—the
sheets were stained, some of them were found to
be in three pieces, and the measuring honks which
ought to have caught in the selvage of the sheets, had been
placed in the double cloth down the centre, and large holes
were left. Other pieces of the same stock in plaintiff's
hands were ezamined, and the same damage found on a
great many of them. The damage done altogether amounted
to about Mi., but a further amount was claimed for the
loss of MCWI. Outrun and Co. custom. The wridesee of
the plaintiff went to show that the damage had bees done
while the sheeting was in the are of the &readmit, under-
going the process et bisashing, Mesta, ?ickford and Co.
merely repacking the presio, rill met grating the pieces
out for examination.
Mr. Berjeant Wilkins, It spears the ease sa behalf of
the defendant, went tlorangilt dr rams width had been
given by the various mirror kr the yhdatiff, and con-
tended that no two of theta agreed me le what had produced
the stains la the pey detit, whisk reined the chief cone-
/WM in the prawn Sam The delhadeat was • bleacher,
who did met pedals to be makins diming experiments;
he undertook to lime seeds la the gedhiery way, and he
denied that the eters were pfd by We workmen, but I
by the isoprene, and west of me of Kr. Hollins's own
servants. The dairies were stated to be threefold: first,
the stains to whisk he bad referred; seesadly, the hook-
ing; and thirdly, the *ratios. In regard to the two
latter complain% ho anti thew the jury that the
plaintiff had ailed for searies, which the de-
fendant had fanageri la whist were then tsar kook-
marks, but no wag then surds ; ea dr gegarary,
the garde were to be very well Unshed, mad it
was set eves wow nreleadad that the narrow dal was Un-
hooked, hie amplaint refined =
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