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HORSHAM, IIAEXE
The Lotto Catty ZAII.OII and 51r. Juice
HEATH last night arrived in thin town, and this
morning opmied the hoisiness or the Ainlizen.
CIVIL SIDE.
Before she LORD CIDER BAWL
ARAIX and AHOTHER V. GOBLE.
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This was an action for a nuisance in stopping up
the ancient lights in the freehold of the Plaintiff,
Ivy erecting a fence wall and paling so near that
the light was thereby obscured.
Mt. Serjeaut who led the cause for
the Plaintiffs, stated, that the house in question
was the poor-home of the parish of Boehm. The
building itself had anciently been a milt-house,
and was formerly the property of the Defendant
Goble ; he lied sold it to a Mr. Hobbs, and after-
wards it was sold to the Plaintiffs, us trustees, for
the use of the parish. In their bands it had been
enaverted into a house for the reception of the
poor, and after it had beea fitted up for this pur-
pose, the Deleudant, Mr. t;oble, who possessed the
etterousiding land, in the first pluce, erected a pal-
. tag, so neut., that he totally excluded the light from
the lower windows, and darkened all the ground-
• door aparinciits ; not content with this, he had also
stuik the receptacle for some privies of neighbour-
ing cottages, so near to the well of the house, that
he had totatally polluted the water with which the
poor inhabitants were supplied. lu both these
trunsaction.,he stated, that the Defendant had acted
wholly agiiimst law, and must be rcpponsible in da-
mages for the mischief which he lied occasioned.
The evideuee of the Plaintiffs' title was then ad-

(lured, but from a defect of the pleadings the
• Plaintiffs were re►trained from going into evidence
of more than the erection of the fence, which was
proved, and that it darkened the lower rooms.
Mr. Serjeant BEST, for the Defendant, contended
thrt the ancient lights of this building were only
those necessary for a malt-house, and that if the De-
fendant did not obstruct the light beyond what was
necessary for malting, he did not obstruct ancient
lights.
The CHIEF BARON agreed thatithis statement of
law was correct, and the Jury, under hi► direction,
found a verdict for the Defendant.

DITCHINS R. BRADLEY.
This was an action of trespass, fir sporting over
the laud of the Plaintiff, at Littlin,rton, in this
county.
• Mr. Serjeant BesT stated, that in this case the
was a respectable farmer, and the Defend-
ant a private soldier in the 14th Regiment of Dra-
goons, who, upon this occasion, was defended by
the Otiirers of the regimeut, who were, in fact, the
teal Defendants in this case. The action was
brought to prevent a repetition of the most out-
rageous conduct on their parts, in which they had
set all moderation and decency at defiance. The
Off eers of that regiment had longbeea a nuisance
to that part of the counts. The Plaintiff:and several
miler wrist respectable land-holders, had formed a
snbecription pack of hounds, with which they hunt-
ed, and the company of the Officers Would at' tll
times have heed tricot gladly received as of
the hunt ; but, instead of this, these parS
.Military
Gentlewien bad chosen to keep a pack of dogs of
Eacir own at the barracks, and, without perotissiou,
1 ail trespassed over the lands of the neighbour.
hood. The Defendant had meted as huntsrium of
this park ; for it was the trick of these officers to.
'ante a private soldier their huntsman, and to
change him ns often as they saw occasion, by which
means they avoided having any notice served upon
him. The Plaintiffs, however, had taken good no-
tice of Mr. Bradley's face, and nu the 9th of lin-
velarber he area warned off the hinds of the Plain-
tiff It was not long, however, before he was
found neaia trespassing, and he should
.prove, that
oa the itth January lie was again hunting on the
laud of the Pla.iititf. This *maid entitle the
Plaintiff tit a verdict, and he had no doubt, but,
under the eircuiustances, his Lordship would
feta the trespass a malicious one, which would
entitle the Plaintiff to receive his full costs.—
The Serirant :added, that it was in the power of the
Plaintiff to have punned a severer remedy against
these Defrotlunts, for, by the Mutiny Acts, they
were liable to forfeit their commissions for this sort
of trespassing. lie hoped, however, that the sant-
ins they would receive iu this action would form a
lesson for their future conduct.

The native and trespass being proved. the Jury
found a verdict for the Plaintiff, damages sat
which carries costs, without a certificate from the
Judge, that the trespass was wilful and midi-.
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The Defendant had also two verdicts against
him in two subsequent actions, for sunder odeneeti.
A \lr. liitchins, a respectable farmer, who proved
the trepassvie, stated,- that the .thiheers behaved
with the :etmoot insolence ; that whenever they were
spekeu to, their usual threat was, to open the tars
awl let out •be brains of those who complained, and
that he hail himself been repeatedly threatened
with a horse-whipping.