The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-29 00:00:00

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COURT OP QUMIN'B Mill4Cll.—TaffeaDAT.
littler at Met Prlus.—Before Mr. Justice Erie aed• common jury.
Klatt! V. JUIRL—PROMISSOItY NOT= —Mr. C. Clark
appeared kw the plaintiff and Mr. Ball for the defendant.
This wee ea Mies epos a promikaory note for the ame of
48.5!., the interest beir.g at the rate of five per east. The
defendant pleaded that he did not make the note. The
tranuetion whisk led to the note being given was the trans-
fir of a public-house, at Borten, in the yt ar 1841.—1 a sop-
port of the rlaintirs ease a person ot the name of Hall wee
called, who stated that be hail been formerly an attorney,
earryieg on liminess in Great James-street, Bedhird-row,
but wait, at the present time, clerk to an attorney.
Wapitis attended at liardner's Brewery, in Gray'alais-
lane, on he oth of April, 18.11, and drew the note in ques-
tion, which the defendant there tipped. The defandaet's
brother, two broken, and the plaintiff were present whoa
the no., was signed.—Mr. Ball then addressed the jury for
the &fence, denying that his client had ever meeepaA the
note in question, and to prove that fact proceeded to WI the
defendant's schoolmaster, who stated that he had taught the
dit-ndant to write, and that he did not believe the siguatere
to the note to be bin, although there was some similarity be-
tweei. it and the defendant's style of writing. Mks Brown,
sister.in-law to the de'endant, was the next witness called,
and she also stated that ohs did not believe the signature to
the note to be in the decedent's handwriting Mr. Justice
Brie buying summed up, mid the note having
_hem headed
to the jury, they retuned a verdict for the plaintiff for the
amount of the mote sad latereat-6701.
PALMER V. CASTRILANI.—Biwa or ERCHANOL—Mr.
Prentice WY counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Miller ap
peered for the defendant.—This was an action biramslit to
recover XL on a bill of exchange, of which the plaintiff
was iadoese• and the defendant the acceptor. The &fume
set up was that the defendant never aceepted the bill, bat
that it was accepted by his wile without his astliedly. To
prove the plaintiff's ems, Mr. George Parker, the deffesdant's
brother-to-law, wee galled, who stated that he had a lies on
the Mull' um of the deteadaat, sad that he drew tbe hill ia
question. Witneee was well aequalated with the islleademee
handwriting, who was aa hotel-keeper in Qaesawbeet,
Golden-square. Th . defendant had taken the benefit dew
Insolvent Debears' Act. Witter regersted the daytime
to make• memorandum of the time wham the bill of ez-Mm
would become payable, and the &Mediae directed his wife
(witness's SMUT) to do so. He (Mr. G. Parker) afterwards
passed the bill away. Mr. Wm. Parker, brother of the last
witness, and several other witnesses, were mho called, and
they all proved that the @Musters to the bill was in the de.
fendant's headwriting.—ldr. Miller ,on behalf of the defend-
ant, urged that the bill was obtained from his client under a
threat that if he did not accept it his furniture would be
taken. The learned counsel concluded by saying that he
should be aide to prove that the defendant never accepted
this hill, but that his wife did, without having any authority
from her husband to do so,—:iliss Winifred ruker, sister to
Mrs. Castellani, and !several other wit:mous were then called,
aad their testimony went to prove that the siernature to this
bill wee sot in the handwriting of the ustendsat, bat they
did not say ace word a. to whether Mrs. Caseellemi had my
aathcrity to sign her husband's name.—The Lameell is*
having summed up, the jury immediate! fed a vomilit
the plaintiff, for the amain . odd.

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