The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-24 00:00:00

COUNI

''Y COURT

-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE J. POLLOCK, ESQ.)
RAILWAY LIABILITY.--MCVIAIION V. THE LANCASHIRE
AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY—The plaintiff con-
ducted his own case. By this action he sought to recover
the sum of £1 155., the value of a chair which had been
damaged in its transit on the above railway. Mr. Cobbett of
Manchester, appeared for the Railway Company. He said
that the company did not dispute that the goods had been
received by them, nor that they had been injured. At
present he would not enter upon_ the value, but his instruc-
tions were to deny the responsibility of the company under
the circumstances of the case, aahich were rather peculiar.
The facts of the case were :—The goods in question were
delivered to the servants of the company by the plaintiff's
wwonife, who had at the time signed a risk rate, a special condi-
ti o w was " that the goods were taken and
r. By this the carried at a low rate in consideration ef the risk
being tier
held
tlie pfarreteiesofsernidiskn. His Honour referred tog then
com-
pany wa
a case which had come before him some time since, in which a
party had sued the London and North Western Railway Com-
pany for damages incurred in transmitting fish to London. In
that case the goods were detained through udavoidable accident
until they were unfit for the market. The amount of damages
claimed was £5O. The defence set up was prec!sely
similar
to that in the present case, namely, the reservation included in
the risk note. He had given a verdict for the plaintiff fr
£25. That decision had been appealed against, '
the Court of Common Pleas had confirmed his
ruent. Mr. Cobbett did not think that the justice of the con-
tract had a right to be inquired into, as he conceived that the
breaking of a chair was neither receiving, forwarding, or de-
livering it, therefore the court might proceed on the merits.
His Honour thought that the meaning of the words in the risk
notes were too wide to be just and reasonable. Prom the
decisions of the court above there could be 110 doubt but that
the presiding judge had the power of drawing a conclusion as
to the terms of an unreasonable contract. After some further
discussion, at the suggestion of Mr. CAbett, the plaintiff
accepted lOs as the damage done to the chair.
The other cases were devoid of public interest.

BOROUGH SESSIONS.-YESTERDAY

(BEFORE a. HENDERSON, ESQ, THE RECORDER)
The following persons were tried and sentenced yester-
day :

Sarah Brannan, aged 36, James Connolly, aged 17, and
Michael McNamee, aged 18, were charged with breaking into
the dwelling house of Thomas Parkin, and stealing therefrom
a large quantity of wearing apparel. The two prisoners,
Connolly and McNamee uere found guilty .of the burglary,
and the former was sentenced to five and the latter to four
years' penal servitude. The female prisoner was acquitted
on the charge of receiving the property knowing it to have
been stolen.
,Samuel Leech, aged 30, was sentenced to twelve month
imprisonment for stealing eight dozen of brass pendant heads,
and other property, belonging to his employers, the Liverpool
United Gas Company.
Ellen Hughes, aged 19, was sentenced to four years'
penal servitude, for stealing a shawl, the property of Mary
Ryan.

sentenced to four years'

Margaret Jones, aged 25, was also
penal servitude, for
belonging to Frederick stealing twenty-four yards of cotton print,
Michael Brennan, aged 38, optician
seven months' imprisonment, for st,
the property of William Wo

~ was Eenfenced to
ealing a diamond ring,

SiimUel Porter, aged 36, bookkeeper, was sentenced to
six m onths'
of imprisonment, for stealing a bank post bill of
James Griffith,.
the value £5 108 10d, the property of his master
Thomas Walker, aged 18, Bartholomew Garrity, aged
, and John Johnson
, aoa , aoal7, all sailors, were found
guiltyof a
breaking into the shop of John Renshaw, and
stealinz quantity of articles therefrom. Garrity—.A`urt
of 100
years' penal servitude, Walker ten, and Johnson six month&
imprisonment.
Henry Rankin, aged 38, draper's assistant,
eras
not
to nine months imprisonment for stealing upwards
agtdhe4apOrrir,iswo
e..
ng to his master,
handkerchiefs, and other property, belong'
Mr. Joseph Naylor.
Mary Riley, aged 22,
108rtnd
charged with stealing £37from the person of Willi 8011.
M paeryn aill servitude,olin es,
Riley was sentenced to four years
Holmes was acquitted.
William Gaynes, aged 18, a sailor, was sentenced to six
months imprisonment for stealing a number of gold dollar pieces,
the property of Manuel Santos Ganzage.
The Court then adjourned.

SIZAXSPEARE'S Housw—We have the pleasure of in-
forming our Stratford readers that the long talked.of
gift of £5OO by John Shakspeare, Esq., Langley Priory,
near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, has been made over to trus-
tees, for the purpost of purchasing certain property on
each side of Shakspeare's House, and restoring that
portion of the premises known as the Swan and Maiden-
head to its original state. In the completion of this
work it is intended to remove whatever does not form an
integral part of " the house" property on the White
Lion side, and also Mr. Gill's house in the opposite
direction. The trust deeds have received the complete
numbers of signatures.—Leamington Courier.

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