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This *as an action brought by the hi•ei
eine and spirit-nserehant. residing to Ratolllo.l
highway. to recover from the Defessdasse, a inatmel
(adorer, residing at Norwirit, a ampearratioat its
damages for crianival conversance stitlillbt
tiff's wife. •. . •
. Mr. SCARLiTt opened the rase for the Plaintiff,
and witnesses were called to provaehe userriage of
Mr. and Mr.. Wright; and the era...a intercourse
between the latter and the Defends*, •-.
Mr. 'dune eV then addressed Ache? .!to the
Defendant. endeavouring to• impress diem with sit
opinion flint all the story told by the Plaintiff's ser-
vants. beyond more tompiag, was pure imitation.
The Jury, however, thought dilfereutly, and brought
in a verdict for the Planieff-,—Dausagos 1001.
NRIGNIOVII •ND WATKINS K. LORD WRSTIIRATIL
Mr. HOLT opened the pleadings in this Caere
• It woe an action for geed. sold and delivered, and
the Defendant had pleaded that he was not liable.
• Mr. GURNEY stated the facts to the Jury. It
owes an action against the Noble Derendasit for a
Sell of very smell smouist. something more than
40/. He confessed that he•wee rather surprised that
• • Special Jury should have been assembled to try
tech a question ; the Defendant had theidtelit fit
to assemble them, and to that course lie certainly
lad no abjection; but he confessed that he could
Await discover any difficulty in the question which
they were called upon to decide. He should he
I.very much mistaken if his Learned Priend could
raise any important question. The action was
brought for a bill the umount of which lima
3M. IS.. ed. and the Defendant had paid into
Court Si. 41. and left the Plaintiffs to recover the
remainder. The demand tor the Plaintiffs was rot
. articles furnished to Lady Westmeath, It the time
she was living separate from her husband; and, on
that ground, his Lordship had, as had been already
stated, pleaded that he yens not liable. The Plain-
tits were tradesmen, and had been employed by
• Lord Westmeath before the separation took place
:'between him and his Lady. and the first articles
were furnished dining the time they were living to-
Isether. After the separatist, Lady Westmeath
viliseetred to St. James's-place, and it was while her
Ladyship was living there that the Plaintiffs did
the business which formed the subject of the pre-
sent action. It was not suggested that the articles
Jo question were of a nature unfit for the station
'end degree of Lady Westmeath; there was no de-
.fence. therefore, on this ground. If a husband and
-life lived separately from each other. unless the
wife should have quitted her hushand's house under
circumstances which would entitle him to repudiate
•ber—unless she should have committed some breach
of the marriage vow, the husband was bound to far-
:elfish her with those necessaries which her condition
4sa life demanded; and to that extent his etedkbe-
dream liable to the persons by whom such neeteintries
Alight be provided. It was true that Lnrd and
'll.lhdy Westmeath did live separate; that fact was'
fit a secret, as it had been brought under discussion
.4tOtheCisievt of Cheneery. It was a sasittottof public
tiliotoriety that a deed of separation hid been exe.
•thited between them; but it was his duty to state.
that Lord Westmeath had never paid ally of the
money which by that deed it was stipulated he'
should pay; and if tradesmen bud nut been fontid
• who would supply those things to Lady Westmeath
which were necessary to her subsistence; her Lady- ,
ship must have absolutely starved. He would be
-enabled to prove. that the Noble Defendant bad
repeatedly visited his Lilly to see her and her chil-
dren, and therefore had an opportunity of obseiving,
-the manner in which she lived. and to have taken
exception thereto if he saw occasion. Whether it
slight er might not become necessary to thew under
I. what circumstances these noble parties hail Sep.-
need, he knew sot; but if his Learned Poirot! hail
say inclination to go into them. he was ready to do
• so. because he was furnished with the means. Most
certainly he should not be the first to go into them.
-Such a topic might produce a discussion not very
pleasant to the feelings of the Defendant. It would
be sufficient to shew that there articles had been
furnished to Ludy Westmeath, and that they were
not inadequate to her situation in life: it would
then be for his Learned Priced to skew by what
means the Defendant had been relieved (ruin his
liability. He took it for granted that the husband
could not remove himself from his responsibility,
unless he could shew that he bad actually pent
money to his wife. or that his trustees had fulfilled
the stipulation of the deed of separation which bad
been executed. He should now proceed to call his
witnesses to prove the case.
The following witnesses were then called sad ex-
Mr. Turner knows the Plaiiitiffs; they are car-
penters and cabinet-makers • remembers in January.
last year, being employed Cy them to paper and
paint a semen for Lady Westmeath. Lady We.ts
meeth then resided in St. James's-place, and that
job and his charge was 41. les.
Cross-examined by the SOLIcITOK-GIINFIAL
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Can't say. that Lord Westmeath was living at that
tinny in Bolton-street.
Miss Susannah Strution—ls in the service of
Lady Westmeath ; has lived with her five yesra
next June ; lived with her ladyship before her sepa-
ration from Lord Westmeath. They separked
houses in 1619. Lady Westmeath then went from
the house to Bolton-street to the house or Mr.
Wood, one of her trustees : that was in June 1819.
About the latter end of December she went to
live in St. James's-place ; after she gut to
St. James's-place the Plaintiffs did the work
specified in the bill produced, putting up beds,
bolts. &c. Her Ladyship continued to reside in
St. James's-place till lately. when she removed to
St. James's Palace. where she received an appoint-
ment from his Majesty. While she lived in St.
James's-place, Lord W. won frequently to the
house. Her Ladyship lived very frugally. She
had not received any thing trout his Lordship to
'mainiuin her.
'. Cross-examined—Had always beets given to
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4de►stand front her Ladyship, that she had received
'lsothing from Lord Westmeath. Heard tier Lady-
. ship say that she had received 800/. from Doctor
o.Wellesley (the Duke of Wellington's brother) on