The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-03 00:00:00

MANN V. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

Mr. M. Members moved for a rule to set aside a
verdict in this case, which was tried at Croydon, and
which the jury left it open for defendants to apply for a
new trial. The action was one brought agailast the di-
rectors of the General Steam Navigation Company, in
their capacity as common carriers, for the non-delivery
of two parcels. The parcels it appeared were taken to the
Swan with Two Necks, in Wood-street, Cheapside, the
place at which the company received parcels for delivery,
and there left to be conveyed to Glasgow, and although
they belonged to that class of parcels known as bankers'
parcels no intimation of the fact was given to the persons
in the office. The parcels were conveyed to Leith by one of
the ships of the company, and on arrival at that place
they bad to be turned over to the railway company for
transmission to Glasgow, and it was supposed that the
miscarriage was occasioned in the removal from the
steam-ship to the railway. He had two point-3 upon
which he grounded his application ; one was the amount
of damages given by the jury, and the other was that
this was not a loss for which damages might be sued
for.
The Court—Take a rule to show cause.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Sittings in Banco.)
;Before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Crowder,

and Mr. Justice Willes.)

ICANDREW V. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
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Mr. Sergeant Byles this morning resumed his argu-
ment in this case, which was tried by the Lord Chief
Justice at Guildhall, the result being that the plaintiff
was non-suited, but with leave to move for a new trial.
The circumstances of the case were that the plaintiff
was the owner of a vessel called the Foam, which, in
December last, was lying at Exmouth laden with oranges,
and that on the 13th of that month he sent a clerk to
the telegraph station of the defendants in Lothbury to
desire them to transmit a message down to the master of
the ship, requesting him to go with her instantly to Hull.
The clerk proceeded there, gave correctly the message
which his employer wished to have transmitted, and paid
10s. for that service of the defendants ; but, inadvert-
ently or otherwise, the message they sent was to direct
the ship to proceed to Southampton, instead of Hull.
The effect was that the master took his vessel to South-
ampton, and sold his cargo of oranges there at a great
sacrifice, and it was to obtain compensation that this '
action was brought. The defendants alleged that the
message paid for by the plaintiff was what was called an
" unrepeated " message—that is, a message which was
not repeated back to London, to see if it bad
been correctly transmitted, before being delivered,
and that they sent all such unrepeated messages on the
condition that they would not be responsible for any
mistakes in their transmission, from whatever cause
such mistakes might arise. The learned sergeant cited
various authorities, and contended that the defendants
were not at liberty to append any conditions whatever
to the mode which they should transact their business.
The Chief Justice said the rule must be refused. He
considered that the oonditions required by the company
for securing the accurate transmission of messages were
perfectly reasonable:
Mr. Justice Crowder and Mr. Justice Willes con
curred in the decision of the Chief Justice.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

THAMES.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES IN A WATERPROOFING FAO.
TOM—Fanny Carter, a well-dressed young woman, who
was in a state of great anguish, was brought up on re.
mand, before Mr. Ingham, charged with stealing pro-,
perty of the ♦alue of 61., belonging to her employers
Messrs. Spill and Langdon, waterproof clothing manu-
facturers, of the Old Farm House, Stepney-green.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutors,
who own a vast establishment, and employ 3,000 persons,
had been plundered to a great extent, although con-
stables were in attendance on their premises day and
night. On Wednesday morning an old woman named
Hyde, of No. 4, White-hart-Court, Greenfield-street,
Whitochapel, offered a new waterproof silk coat in pawn
at the shop of Roche and Hales, pawnbrokers, No. 1,
Commercial-road East, and on being asked how She be-
came possessed of it she said she was employed
by a man named Abrahams to pawn it, but
did not know where he lived. She afterwards
gave several other accounts, and finally stated that she was
directed by the prisoner, Fanny Carter, in the employ
iof Spill and Langdon, to pawn the coat. The young
woman Ras taken into custody in the prosecutor's factory