The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-20 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittings at Nisi Prius, in hfiddlesez.—(Before Lord Chief
Justice Bovill and a Special Jury.)
'MIKAN V. MOS.

this Canister, The plaintiff incase was a , and the de-
fendant was also a member of the bar and a Queen's
counsel. The plaintiff had sued for a dissolution of
marriage, and the defendant was retained as counsel for
the wife. The declaration in the present case alleged
that the defendant falsely and maliciously, and under
colour, and in fraud of his retainer, spoke of the plaintiff
as a barrister and member of a circuit, these words—" Ho
is a cunning, clever man, well skilled in getting up
cases—he is no ordinary man—he has had the advan-
tage of an education at college—be has had •
legal education to fit him for the bar, and
he has had a long experience in the practice of the warts
and the getting up of cases; he is a man to whom the
whole machinery of the law is as familiar as the alphabet,
and he has devoted the whole of his skill in weaving a net
to catch his poor unwary trusting wife. He has used his
knowledge and intelligence in order to trump up a false
cof adultery against • virtuous and innocent woman,
iCror!e er that he may marry a rich woman at Nottingham
to whom he is engaged. He has procured testimony
against this lady by employing a publican named Burton
to bribe witnesses to come forward to swear falsely
against her, b 7 promising to them some of the wealth he
hopes to obtain from the lady he has engaged to marry.
His conduct was one long cruel scheme to get rid of
a loving and affectionate wife. He had the cruelty to
cross-examine his own wife in a suit in which he was pe-
titioner and she respondent, on the most insulting and un-
necessary topics' and in the most cruel manner, but he has
not dared to go into the witness-box himself. If he bad
dared to go into the witness-box I could have wrung it
out of him, and would have forced him to admit that he
bad employed Burton to bribe the witnesses by promising,
in case of hie mucosa in the mid suit, some of the
money he had hoped to obtain by his secondond marriage
with the rich lady of Nottingham. , In a second count
the plaintiff 'Raged that be, having retired from the Mid-
land bar mess in consequence of a difference of opinion
with the majority of the members of the mess,
and applying to be re-admitted to the mask the
defendant spoke of him these words :—" He is a
rlunworthy to mix with gentleman or to be a mem-
this or any other mess. His conduct in endeavour-
' to trump up a case in the Divorce Court
•by means of
gm g witnesses and for other misconduct has been so
disreputable and disgraceful that be ought to be excluded
from the society of gentlemen. I have laid his conduct
before the Lord Chancellor and the Hellebore of the Inner
Temple, and the Lord Chancellor has condemned him as
unworthy to join the mem of the Midland Circuit or any
other mess, and the Bonchere of the Inner Temple have
also considered him as unworthy ;" the consequence of
which was that the plaintiff was not readmitted to the

—The defendant pleaded not guilty.
The plaintiff appeared in person ; and the Attorney.
oeni
the Solicitor-General, and Mr. Hawley for the
defendant.