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There was no defence, and the Jury found a verdict for the plain.
tiff—damages SOL

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. GUILDIIALL,
MONDAY. JULY VI

13,jiire the CHIEF .1 r s TICE and a Special Jury.

HALL DURME R.
Mr. Sergeant VAVGIIAN appeared for the plaintiff in this ease,
which was an action brought by the sari nee of Harris, a bank.
rupt, to recover toy!. the amount of a bill of exchange, drawn by
Bond, and accepted by the defendant.
On the part of the defendant it was stated, first that Harris was
a bill-broker, and as such was not a trailer within the operation of the
bankrupt laws. It was further alleged, that no consideration had MELANCHOLY CASE.—About ten or twelve days
been given foe the bill, and notice was given to the plaintiff requi. ! Edward Hales. of London wall, was returning to tot
ring him to prove that such consideration had been given. i tam, be stopped st a publicthoase to get a draught i
Witnesses were called, who proved that Harris, the bankrupt, 1 whilst in the house, he heard a shouting on the road,
traded at a bill-broker ; they also proved the act of bankruptcy, ' him hasten to the door, lest the hare, which happened
and the debt of the petitioning creditor. I skittish. should run off with the gig. When Mr. H. ci
The plaintiffs care chased here. I Immediately discovered that the shouts proceeded from
Mr. Sergeant Oxstow observed, on the pan of the defendant, 'of persons chasing a large dog that had bitten two Istria
that a notice had been screed upon the plaintiff, requiring him to adjoining farm-yard ; by this time the animal was (leer
prove the consideration given for the bill ; he had omitted to do so, and the horse, terrified be the increasing noises,
and such ontisaion was a failure of the action, and entitled the pletely unmanageable, and darted into the nahltile of
defendant to a non-suit. as the dug came by, which snapping at everything bin
Mr. Sergeant ‘'AUGH AN contended, that unless by the evidence his headlong course, unfortunately mixed Mr. H. by
it appeared the title was inspeaciint, it was not necessary to prove notwithstanding that he wore boots, indicted a VC()
the consideration. painful wound. On recovering tram his fright, he
The ('tiler Josmor said that this was a point on which there ' part with spirits, and applying a bandage, returned
was a difference of opinion among the Judges ; it had been ruled, thought nothing more about the matter for four Of five
however, by load Kilenborough. and by the present Chief Justice the leg began to they moat alarming symptoms of in
of the King's Bench, that persons seeking to recover on a hill of swelled to an unprecedented degree. Surgical aid was
exchange, when it was required, were bound to furnish proof of in, all the firth in the immediate vicinage of the wow
consideration. quite away, and hopes were entertained that the poise
Mr. Sergeant VAIrGITAX—My Lord, I respectfully submit that communicated itself to the system. Unfartunately, th
this doctrine is entirely new. , non was not well founded, as the patient, an the Silos
Th- Corer .It. ST ICE—It is no such thing. Brother Vaughan ; ' log, betrayed symptoms plainly indicative of canine iv,
it is a doctrine that has prevailed from the time of Lont 3lansficld, • became insensible to every effort of attention, talked
down to the preeent and frequently imitated the barking of a dog, eeineirsg
Mr. Serpent VAUGHAN—Not in this Court, I submit, my dislike of all liquids, particularly water. In this state hi
Lori. For the five-and-twenty veers I have been practising in until Friday evening, wren the disorder attained
this Court, and i do not remember a single instatiee in which the aeendsocy, in which the near approach of friends becon
plaintiff was required to prove the consideration given for a bill of perilous. Tb: paroxysm, however, was abort in pro
exchange, unless lib' title were impeached. Again, my Lard, I re- violence, and on Saturday death pet a period to the
spectfelly submit that such doctrine is quire new. I this untortuare, bat deserving ycung man. Mr. Hs
The Co iEr JUSTICE—Ready I think I have some mate to vas formerly • clerk in the Navy Pay Office, and was
complain of the manner in which I sin treated. I madethe state. • esteem toe his uniform good conduct. This ts the Sr
moot which I have made on an • authority which I hold in my hinds. whom death has followed the bite of dogs in the nein&
Dlr. Sergeant VAUOUOX here banded a book to his Lordship. all within the spaced (Mamma& The Magistrates in
Allow me. my Lord, to refer you to my high authority, Phillips's have lamed a printed notice or caution to persons ligllllll
Rules of liiiitkocr. You will see there on what my aseernon is dogs to go abroad unmunled during this dangerous PM
founded. The very point now under dispute is thereby clearly ex. Stone alarming accidents happened in this city and
plained in the tent of page la, vol. 2. It is time stated.—' If the hood within the last low days. in consequence of doy'
bill of a plains it as hoiden, is brought into suspicion by a witness mitred to run at large. A young gentleman hem
called upon the part of the plaintiff, lee ought to prove the consi. bitten by one, as was also the child M. a Wayne.,
dentin:), although there has been no notice to that effect t but if tacked, lacerated in the face, and much disfigures_
no suspicion arises from the plaintiff's case, he will not be obliged, heard of another child that was bides, but cannot say
even after notice, to prove it, unless title has been impeached.' The of this mischief. At Newbstilding, a dog which had sit
ease of Delaney v. Mitchell is the one referred to in the notes, from strong spar:lnns of hydrophobia,. having hit several dogs so
which this doctrine is drawn. I apprehend that if the principle rushed furiously upon Mr. John Conyngham, a respectable
I were otherwise than is here laid down, I am apprehensive that the there, and cut him in two parts of the free. The MO.
Iwhole commercial transactions at the country would be involved in C.mytigharn's pepficw In the thumb. In both macs
irretrievable mansion. cat away, and a caustic remedy applied, so that we
• The Cuir r JoselCE—Nevertheless, lam surprised, Heather unpile will be escaped, above all others afflictive.--
Vaughan, that my statement should be regarded as *mini; novel Juarnat.

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