The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-06 00:00:00

SPORTING.

nrimuovicz riiiitA.:ZioiToN PARK. 1847.
Deem lliDnetuu. of 20 sees. each, 10 ft, and 5 only U &shred on
Tussles Me leth.—Wolfdog, S yrs, list 91b; Godfrey, 6 yrs, 12at 511);
ybis(ftw, 4 yes, 13st 411, ; Lord Sateen, 6 yes, 12st; Campanile,
8 yss, 31st II Ms ; Obefte, 4 yrs, llst 101 b ; 31110 x, 3 yrs, 11st 1015 ;
NswitrligeOgiM •
Ilse Illb ; higlerrood, 4 yrs, list Sib; Pinrantib,
4 yrs, 114119 b; Ille Pager's Daughter, aged, Ilst 71b; Free Una,
4 yrs, llR•yy Ibillries, 4 yrs, 1 Ist 41b; Maumee, 4 yrs, 1 Ist 41b ;
tii.ter to 4 years, lld 31b; Queen Ann. 4 yrs, 1 Ist Mb;
Pair Ron 6 yrs.l led 11b; Curiosity, 4 yrs, Ilit ; Lord Barry,
4 yrs, 11444 lib, 4 yrs, 31st; Master Stepsey. 5 pa, lOst 131 b ;
71te Magma, lest 1215 ; Duo Swift, 5 yrs, DM 1215 ; Colum-
bia 5 yrs, lest 148 b; Satyr, 4 vs. lOst 10lb ; Jolly Semi. 4 yrs,
Ind 71b • ?mink 4 yrs, lest Mb • dolater, 5 yrs, 10st 61b ; The
Warrior, 4yrs. ISM Mb ; wad Bei, S yrs, 10st 411); MOD, 4 yrs,
lit 41h; br et, %clumsy, dam by Wm, 4 yrs, lest Mb; br g, ly Young
endlind. outer Tubb. 3 yril. lON • Medea. 4 yrs, lest; Manisa,
4 Irk Ing litsrias nod. list illi Iftelbor te Commit«, 4 ps,
Sarni; Os bac I yrs. lib 11 ; be Mar, 3 yrs, 903 lab;
Wilisbia& a pow. ft Nli ; Or eft 3 yr; OS lib.
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dodos& as sr Win lbs HMI INlL—Weltdair, Si.tyr 134 Sib; Lord
~....f IIiTZ;IM lit
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unto; Newark wed, 114 1111; ood, 4 -rs,, 1 Ist 41b ;4 17r:e.
Liam, 4 yrs, 11241 M; PAZ 4 yrs, lOst 131 b ; Sister to
Pionlemn, 4 yrs, Ma 13.0; ciimater. 8 yrs lost 1 ID; Idolater,
4=4llst Sib; M. rib3y Yowls OWlftfte, eat'ot Sets's, S yrs, 10.1;
4 .".WAllWlLlKwimPar'ilgairo-1647.
basixtruars be m Tsui. Beam—Al/wsl, 3 yrs; Claribel,
3 yrs • Doke of Eldnisold, 4 yrs; Viltbiag, 3 yrs; lisithos, 3 yrs ;
Infrilige, 3 yrs; Cbudlssibl, 3 yrs; sod b e by Liverpool oat of Nam,
3 % Wass:moms /14/111.1tAl al *ism. sock 10 ft, sad 3 stay tt
lidesisisd is We IMlL—Oabrey II yes, Lib lb I,lsises, 3 yrs, list ;
hilt. 144.63; Popelfel MN" 3 yts, 1 lei Sib ;
yoke IDS Mb, Idolsser, 6 yrs,
st ; Satyr, Ms, list ; iantreiiime, I yrs, 10st 11411 ; Aless,
4 yrs, IM 413.

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rams nee re lbersabada aro ke air le low thaa
bare rotunda. Ihneral et re beer were mil eantard, are eared
era eireasti. The pro wr eranally era dof by Mr. Edw.
Bunts, arrreef Oast antra, way fa the draft be. beat
Mr. Bennie, et Mater rimy.

late Enidligence.
EQUITY COURTS.
Before Vice.Chanallor Knight Bruce.
STIRRILAN v. DAWSON. INFANT'S DIALINO WITH
RAILWAY SIARRII.—This Wl's a wit instituted by MUNI.
Stikeman and Barry, of London, brokers, against Mr. John
Kiddell Dawson, who was caahkeeper to his father a wine
merchant at Liverpool, Messrs. Middleton and Barber, of
Liverpool, brokers, and the father of J. K. Dawson. It
appeared that the plaintiffs bad purchased in the market
for the Rev. Mr. Boole, shares in the Leeds and Manchester
Railway Company, of the first named defendant, who
it afterwards turned out was at the time an infant; and the
object of the proceedings was to have a valid transfer from
Mr. J. K. Dawson, who had attained his majority, or, if
it should be considered that he was not bound, and that
Messrs. Middleton and Barber, who had been his
broken,, aware of his infancy then, that
t'harsliould perfect the transaction by transferring
other similar shares to the plaintiffs, as the plain-
tiffs had repaid the Rev. Mr. Boole his purchase money and
taken an assignment from him. The case was argued on
the 20th of February, when Mr. Wigs.= and Mr. Malin;
appeared for the plaintiffs •, Mr. Russell and Mr. J. Bailey
for Messrs. Middleton and Barber ; and Mr. Bacon and Mr.
Eddie for Messrs Dawson. The Vice-Chancellor gave judg-
ment this morning at considerable length. After reading
some parts of the answer put in by Mears. Middleton and
Barber, in which they stited that they did not know of the
infancy at the time of the sale, his Honour said that be
should dismiss the bill as against them without prejudice to
any further proceedings. If it bad not been for the charge
in the bill so to the pecuniary circumstances of those gentle-
men he should have given them no costs, but as
that charge was there he should dismiss the bill against
them with 101. costs. The conduct of Mr. Dawson, the
father, he did net consider to have been fraudulent, nor did
he say that the shares had been purchased with the father's
money ; the bill should, therefore, be dismissed as against
him with costs. It had been contended, on behalf of the
plaintiffs, that there war a fraud on the part of the infant,
for which, notwithstanding his infancy at the time, he be-
came answerable in equity, after he had attained his majo-
rity. This he considered to be a question of importance to
the general interests of society. His Honour then referred
to several cues in which the question of liabilities of infants
had been before the court, and read from the 3rd volume of
Kebble's reports, the following amusing ease of Scroggan e.
Stewardson, which occurred in the 26th year of Charles 11. :
" Is trespass by infant, by guardian. the defendant pleads
that the plaintiff was above 16 years old, and agreed, for six-
pence in hand paid, that the defendant have license to take
two ounces of her hair, to which the plaintiff demurred, and
per curia= it's no plea ; for the infant cannot license, though
she may agree with the barber to be trimmed; and judg-
ment was foe the plaintiff " In another book, the same case
was thus reported; la trespass flare of et armis insultum
Jett et taunt miners rapids spina Anna abscidit, the de-
fendant as to all the trespass was of the age of 16 years, and
fora certain sum of money licentiavit the defendant duos
maim crisis Anna detondere et abscindere ; and upon the
demurrer to this plea the court held that the contract was
absolutely void, and, consequently, the tonsure unlawful,
end gave judgment accordingly for the plaintiff."—
In the present case the story told by the answer of Mr. J. K.
Dawson was, that he had been struck with the represents..
lions of the certainty or probability of profit by gambling or
speculating in shares in public undertakings, those represen-
tations having been made to him by another person with •
view to enable him ta deliver himself from difficulties, and
engaged in a series of transactions, the result of which it did
not require inspiration to foretel. It was difficult to believe
it likely that the brokers could have been defrauded by the
lad. His Honour dismissed the bill spinet the son as well
as against the father, but uto the son without oasts. The
whole of his decree was to be without prejudice to any other
action or suit.

Barre VimCUß.:eller Migrate..
Ewes e. Cava.—Laceacr.—By • marriage settlement
dated in October, 1832, certain estates in Leicestershire
and Northamptonshire were settled to the use of the first
and every other son of Robert.Otway Cave in tail, and in
default of such issue upon such trusts as Robert Otway
Cave, should by deed or will appoint. On the 21st Nov.,
1839, Robert Otway Cave gave a life interest in
his personal estate to his wife, and directed that 20,0001.
should be paid in each manner se she should by will direct.
In January, 1841, R. 0. Cave, being then at Turin, made
a codicil to his will, by which be gave to Sir De Lacy Evans
20,0001., and to George Lloyd Hodges 5,0001., to be paid
twelve months after the decease of himself (the testator)
and his mother, the Baroness de Bray. The bill was filed
by Sir De Lacy Evans and Mr. Hodges, to ham it declared
that they were entitled to be paid their legacies on the
death of the Baroness de Bray and to have the money
mewed is the meattime. The bill also prayed an amount
of the Wellabses peemusi estate.
Mr. Swerneem for the testator's widow, contended that
the legman in 111.001 were charged exclusively upon the
reel estate, and that an account of the personal estate was
therefore uaseaseary.—Meese. Romilly, Lloyd, and Glans
be ether parties.
appeared Heneur, upon its being stated at the bar that the debts
wool atherat the whole of the primal estate, digested an
Mirky whetbee the mama means was insullisient he pay-
ment et the &M e, the icy to be without peitadioe to
any question es to the liability of the personal anus.