The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

Mr. Mammals..., Q.O , and Mr. Hayes, for the plaintiff;
Mr. Mellor, Q.t., fur the defendant.
John Sherman, an attorney's clerk, living in Noel.'
London, proved he handwriting of Davis and Browne, the
indorsers of the

Mr. Mellor, in defence, stated that the defendant was an
undergraduate of the University of Cambridge, and having
a race horse of his own, he became acquainted with Broome.
The acquaintance, in this ease, had a ruinous effect on
the prospects of the defendant. A friend of Young's,
wanted some money for the purpose of paying his coVege
expenses, and for that purpu Young accepted a bill of
exchange for 50!. Broome offered his services to get the
bill discounted, having. as such ammeters always professed
to have, • friend in the city." The bid was consequently
entrusted to Broome, but he never discounted it , nod after
many futile applications fer the bill. a community of de-
signing persons brought Young to Warwick Maces, in the
hat autumn, where Broome made his appearance, and was
challenged by Young for the bill, Broome replied, " you
said I was to keep it ; you lost beta to me mg the Chester
Cup to the amount of 112/., end said I might
keep the bill." Young rejoined—" Why, instead
of losing, I backed the winner." On this Broome offered to
show Young his own handwriting fur the amount he had
lost on the Chester race. A crowd assembled, and the re-
sult was that Young was fool enough to give his written
engagement for the amount, on coudition that Broome was
not to use the bill at all or put it in suit against him until
he produced the alleged handwriting in admission of the
debt. The bill was accepted, and Broome received it; yet'
Broome, in violation of his engagement, handed it over to
Mr. East, who was now put forward as the person who had
most chance of the bona fides, and in order to give the case
the greater appearance ofjustice.
The defendant was put into the box, and corroborated the
ststeuaent of hie counsel as to the circumstances under
which the bill of 1121. was obtained from him—namely,
conditional upon Broome's producing his (defendant's) ad-
mission
that he had lost money to bun (Broome) upon the
Chester Cup. On the contrary, witness swore that he had
backed the winner of that race. He had given the bill to
Broome because he had threatened to follow him wherever
be went, and collected a crowd of persons round them.
Mr. Macaulay then called the plaintiff and his clerk.
The former said that he was an attorney at Birmingham,
and was employed by Henry Broome and John Broome
and his wife, iu some legal proceedings, about August or
September last, in the Hamp and Prubert conspiracy case.
The bill was indorsed to him by Broome, on the 27th
of November. He had applied to Broome for cash, and it
had been arranged that Broome should bring him 601.
On the Saturday, previous to the trial, he brought the bill
for 1121., and said that witness might either have that, or
he (Broome) would get it cashed, and bring the 601. Wit-
ness preferred taking the bill, on Broome's assurance that
it was a good one. He knew nothing of the circumstances
between Broome and Young, or he would have taken the
cash instead of the bill. Broome at that time owed him
(witness) 2601., for professional services.
His lordship, in summing up, observed that the question
was whether East got the bill before the 20th December, if
he did, the verdict must be for him ; but if, as had been
alleged, it was on the 27th December, then the question
would be whether he gave consideration for it. If not, as
the plaintiff and his clerk had swore that consideration
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wasigiven, and the jury were to return a verdict for the
defendant, it would be tantamount to saying that the plain-
tiff and his clerk were perjured.
The jury, after some consultation, bad to retire, because
as the forentrn stated to the judge, he believed the evi-
dence of the plaiutiff and his clerk, but that the rest of the
jury did not.
Verdict for the defendant.