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HARWOOD V HARWOoII.
This was an issue from the Court of Chancery, to
try whether the Defendant had given any, and
what consideration, for 37001 in Exchequer Bills, to
the Plaintiff, in the year 1803.
Mr. GARROW, in opening the case on the part of
the Plaintiff, requested that the parties should he
ordered nut of Court before he proceeded; this pre-
liminary being acquiesced in, he said, t rat he never
felt more pain than he did in laying this ease before
the Court and Jury. It might b obs reed, taar
the parties were of the same name, but it was nu--
I.inch ly to know, that they were Mother against
Son; and the property now in question, was all
that remained of the wreck of the poor woman's
fortune, which she had been by her industry accu-
mulating for years, and all for this Defendant, her
son and only child. Having stated the nature of
the issue, he observed, that from the nature of this
case, the Lord Chancellor had direfted, that the
parties themselvesd should be ,examined upon the
trial. The object of the Plaintiff was not to op-
press this young man, but to protect him against
himself, and against those whose objra was to ruin
him. The Plaintiff's husband had been a respect-
able milliner, residing at Cambridge, who died
several years age, law:oil the present Plaintiff, his
i.videw, and the Defendant, an only child. Ills
property, at the time of hit death, did not amount
to more than between 4 and 3001. but Mrs. Harwood
continued the business, and in the coulee ref tint.,
amassed some thousands. She gave this son ti.e best._
education possible, entered him at the University,
and afterwards as a Student of Lincoln's-inn, in..;
tending that he should be cslt'd to the Bar. Air
this time she supplied him amply with moni-y, and •
when he was near coining of age. she transfirred
some Stock from her own name to his, thereby put-
ting it wh illy out of her own power. la some cases,
as in the present, it vas unfortunate to have so good
a parent, for this yout.d .nail instantly embarked in a
trade id the most ridiculous nature. He fell in with
two persons of the nad.es of Oby and Hunter, who
pretended they had found out a method of making
old parchment new again; and the event of this
speculrion was, that all his money very naturally
went for nothing. Having then got a fr. 4h sup-
ply from his mother, he took a knnse near the
Strand, which he furnished. ant let out in lodgings,
hu; this prairie also faili,d ; and fr an his driving
About its hackney-coaches, and spending his rn ,ney
In the moo i-stravag int way, he became affected in
his mind; Dr. Monte, was consulted, and it was
absolutely necessary that he should be kept in a state
of restraint for some time. His mother gave up
her business, left Cam: ridge, and came to reside
is Lo id in, that Silt might be near him, ill order to
take care n' him. About that time, a person of the
awn* of Mordecai, wrought actions agaiast her and
oymber person, for a libel ; and it being suggested
ea bor. that it was possible he might recover large
damps against her, is order to preserve the little
=1" •
y she had left, she sold our of the funds,
siestld it la Lech-quer Bills, which were uki-
•
Mately lodged in the hands of her broker's banker,
With directions to be delivered only to her, or his
.order. Whin the Defendant had recovered, and was
eras set at liberty, hi• applied to his mo her to lend
bum thealliehequer lls in question, in order, as lie.'
asserted. to poi chase' °NUMMI on her account,
by which, he persuaded her, be could turn his
Money to more advantage She accordingly deli-
wind them over to him ; but no person was pre-
sent at.the time, and the agreement between them
was wholly made by themselves alone, sn that it
could he only ascertained from their evidence. It
was upon these conditions she handed over the pro-
perty to him, never having received any considera-
tion whatever far it. It was afterwards discovered.
that he made no purchase of thnniant, er any thing
else, on her account ; and when applied to, to return
them, be was not inclined to give them up. The
proceeds of these Exchequer Bills came into the
bands of a Mr. Wheeler, a broker ; and Mrs. Har-
wood having consulted Mr. Taylor. a respedable
Attorney, he thought the best thing to be done her
all parties, was to attach the property in Wheeler's
hamlets the Mayor's Court. It was competent for
rte Defendant to come in there, and claim it as his
property ; but he preferred going to gaol. by .which
Mem the proceedings in the Mayor's Court were
debated. He then brought an aftion against
Wheeler, Wise found bail ; and, in conseqnelifie of
this, the present suit in Chancery was instituted, For
the restitution of the property to question. From
the nature of the masa/boas these not being a third
person present. Mrs. Harwood (the teamed C.eun-
rlolllohtinn:d) ws•ald speak positively to the fads.
leg w ^nitf be so Ist corroborated by the lady is
Nines house she lodged, as to she Defendant's as-
blefeledqnsent of having got those bolls saw his
poseeision ; which was accompanied by a &dam
nos, unit to be used by a child towards a panto
that he bad now got alh be wanted, his WOW
sire saw se on Lie parish. as he peter naimall W.
give her Olit farthiag alibi proceeds.
After some further ebeirreatioas twin the twaromil
Coaled. these felts were well all proved by Ms
Cackshill. the Pleiatirs Broker, Mn Wattles. via
Myna she lestsed. and the Plasma West
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