The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-11 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTH:MIN CIRCUIT—Lin:arm., Aran 10

mow' oovire.—(Bdorip Mr. Jangles Mellor.)
" WEITZ o. imvesoik
Aslffesll. Q.C.,
_sad for the plaintiff ;
the digs was not doihmt. The plabstiff, a broker la
limped, sued ihe defeodsat, owe of the firm of Mims.
Urines and 00., pneral raerehante, Lando, for damages
sustained in winesquesos of the sooperforreame of a coo.
tract. The defendant had deposited 1,048 throes of Amer!.
osn lard with Kenn. Waterlionse, brokers, Liverpool, to
be sold by this at 48s. Pd. mewl. The brokers sold it to
the plaintiff, sad the defendant objected to him as a pur-
chaser, but afterwards, upoa Mr. Waterhouse's guarantee,
sold the plaintiff 958 times, sad holly declined to fall
the contract. The plaiatiff daimod 7811., the Mama be-
tween the prim of lard at the time of the isootrarit sod the
mho at the time wises the °Detract was broken. The
jury pre a vardiot far the plaintiff foe 6371. 17s.

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Ls this IMO Mr. Mellish, Q.C., and XL gunk,
far the hall; Mr. Attorevatheral Jame, Iram,larg.
R. G. thes, and Mr. P. Williams, for the defentbusta
The defendants were the Clostmercial Cake laserathe
Company, and the &derail°, was laid upon a policy al is.
manor on a ship called the Bed Jacket, on a voyage hew
Queenstown to Nassau and Tampico. The bull sad
machines weer theured for 1,4761. ; the total value being
8,0001. The notion was broptibg Udell' and Ca, law-
men brokers, but the rail was understood to be
ML Croaks, the owner the meth The ship was a
steam*: formerly called the Dead:eon Castle, and afterwards
the Bea King, sad she was at dm tbne eagsged plying be-
twee° Liverpool and Ethyl. She left Quethetows on the
31st of July, 1853, under the nuns of the Red Jacket, fat
the voyage is citill•iioll. She was of 169 tops, with ..
of 100 nominal hone.arpower, • paddl 'tamer, and
of iron. After she bad sailed from geometries,
negotiations were opened with the defendants for the in-
' eurance, sad the plaintiff gave the defendants to owlet-
stead that the vessel bed been refitted in Liverpool two
moths before, that she was in &thirst, condition, and a
good strong seaboth The insures°. was actually effected
in August, on the 10th, at the rate of eight guineas per
cont. Afterwards on her voyage to Nathan she got upon
• reef and was lost. The or.. for the defendant,' was that
before the inewthos was effected, namely, oe the Bth id
August, the plaintiff received • telegram from Fend. in
Spain, stating that the vessel had put in there with a
broken engine crank, and would require six days for reek.
that this w a material point, and would have affected the
insurance seriously ; but that it was ant sessusiested to
the defendants by the plainti.ff. The whole ems tweed
upon the questioo whether this information wee material
or not ; sod the jury foetid • verdict for the defendants
for the amount claimed, being of opinion that the informa-
tion was material, but ex •g their ithavistioa that no
imputation of fraud be brought spinet the plaintiff.
The above case brought to • close the sew to be tried in
the Crowe Court, and Mr. Justice Mass proceeded by
the evening train to London.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.