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London, England, 1819-12-06 00:00:00

LEVI N. MAYOR, BUM, AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by an aged Jew to
recover compensation in damages for pt assault
committed upon. Ills person, under the following
circumstances, stated by his Counsel. and proved
toy two witnesses :—On the 10th of December last,
he went into the house of Defendant, who keeps a
public-house in the Commercial-road. to wait fur
the Captein of a ship, who had promised to meet
him there to purchase a watch ; while stopping he
called for • pint of porter, hot tins was refused.
He then called for a glume of gin and water. but
this also teem denied, and the landlord said he would
not draw liquor for any Jews whatever. The Plain.
tiff expressed some disapprobation at this uneourtly
conduct, upon which the landlord, assisted by the
, two other Defendants. who are beadiwoughr, forc-
ed him with *That violence out of the house. and
laid him prostrate in a heap of mud
:which was col-
lected opposite the door. By this misconduct the
Plaintiff not alone was covered with dirt, but h•st
his wig, spectacles, and watch. The spectacles
were returned, but neither the watch uor wig were
forthcoming.
0o the part of the Defendants a complete and
satisfactory answer wee given to this cliar4e.
turned not that the Plaintiff, who is a pedlar, oh.
truded himself into the pillow of Mr. Al iyou's
house, for the purpose of endeavouring to get u
customer. Mr. Muyou, seeing him iu this sit (la ti
told him to go out, having repeatedly before in-
formed him that he would not have the visitors to
Ins house thus disturbed. This put mister Levi
into • v4olent rage ; he waved his stick in a threat-
ening manlier towards both Mayon and his wife,
applied 1,, them very indecent epithets, and re-
fused to quit the place, asserting his right to go
into any room in the house excepting the bar. lim
consequence of this violence, which the Plaintiff
'continued for some time, the other Defendants, the
ilea,ibeweughs, were sent for, and they endeavoured
to persuade the enraged Plaintiff to withdraw. H.
still persisted in refusing, and sit length they handed
him as gently as they could to the door, and put
Van out; after which, in order to form a ground of
action. hr despised voluntarily in the mud, and ex-
claimed that he had lost Ina wig and watch,
although neither one nor the other had been seen
with him
-previously.

Mr. MARRYATT. in reply to this eitSP, Urged,
that it was a settled point of law, a publican was
bound to draw beer or spirits for any person who
might go into his house for that purpose. and
that in applying an offensive epithet to the Plain-
tiff. the Defendant hail himself been the cau►e of
the irritation which had been displayed, and con-
airtfuently had no right to treat the Plaintiff in the
wanner in which he had been treated. He also
►idiculed the idea. that any man could hare such
sit affection for dirt as to lay hinis.lf voluntarily
►lowt, in a heap of such disgusting hitlt as had been
dterr'sbed.

The CHIEF JUSTICE knew of no such settled
psu.t of low as had been stated by the Learned
Counsel. lie did nut see why any publican in Lon-
non stsechi nut. if he chose, refuse to serve an ob_
jocti%,isble person who might come into his house.
There wits a law which applied to the accominodu-
t 101 l of trivet:era in inns, but this did not apply to
c:insfc,ni pillshe houses, His Lordship then sum-
med up the evidence, and the jury found a verdict
for the Delenduists. The Plaintiff left the Court,
acknowledging that he had fur once made " u bad

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, SATIMPAT, Dec. 4.

Si:6ll,T: at 11isi Prius, before Chief Justice
DALLAS.