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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF RING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL,
Saruatsair. Drcarsta 2.

Arab Hew Sittings before the CIIIEIP JUVTICZ.

DOBSON o. ASHE. ESQ.

This was an action for work and 14hrior done in
preparing and pliutiog a cottage, the property of
the Defendant.
Mr. SouctTott-G F.N ER Al. and Mr. Corms COM
ducted the Plaintiff's case, and Mr. Sti'LETT and
Mr. Dore the Defendant's.

It appeared in evidence that the Plaintiff is a re-
sperrahle tradesmen, and that the D4erid ant is •
reitilennin of fortune, living at in Kent.
A Mr. Haggerty. describing I self as a general
agent fur all manner of basin's , and living in
Stanhope-street, May-fair, applied on behalf of •
Mr. commonly called Lord Newark, to the
D.-fending. to rent the cottage in question fur his
I.ord.hip's residence. A written agreement was
t!rawn up. by which Lord Newark was to become
teintni, at the rate of • pound per week, the De-
lendsnt covenanting to beer half the expense of put.
t;og the cottage into necessary repair. After the
r Are. fluent was executed. Mr. Dobson. the Plain—
t wai employed by the Noble Lord to do the work.
Piailinffsent down paperhangers and painter
t's' premises. and sifter several weeks employ.
meot the collage was fitted up in the most elegant
,n 1 expensive manner. During part of the time
t tie work was goings's. Mr. Dobion was secommri.
.'aced in the Defendant's own residence with • bed.
&c. In the progress of the work the Defendant
made observations upon the potteries of the paper.
inane of which were *hewn to him. and of which
he opproved. He was heard to sac that what had
been done was " canal handsome," and "it was
t. pity that the ship should be spoiled for a ha'porth
i.l tar," and appeared to give his consent to what
4s going on. A considerable time slier the job
dune the bill w.s vent in'o the Defendant, who
r. fu.e.l to take it, raying, diet he had not ordered
the work to lw done, and iluti he had sun more right
to troy it than the l'ope of Rome. It was stater!
that the Noble Lord who had taken the cottage
ot.ited himself, last week. of the benefit of an Art
hittiv pained for the relief of insolvent debtors in
I:..loand, so that the Praitstiff found it necessary
r•f,ntt to the Defendant'. liability, if it could be
Made out.

Mr. Haggerty, the general agent, who negociated
she transaction of taking the cottage for Lord
Newark, denied that his general agency extended
to the personation of a servant. Hr deleted that he
had pinged himself off at Capt. Ashes home as Lord
Newark's servant ; and he also denied that Lord
Newark had pawed himself off as his servant, and
t hit he and the Noble Lord had interchanged this-
',tiers. A female cousin of his had fatly) on a visit
►.P Captain Ashe's housekeeper, and he had been to
►-e her once before the agreement between Lord
Newark sod the Defendant. The Defendant was
before° sixty and seventy years of age. Lord
Newark was stated lay one of the inhumes to have
told considerable dealings with a Mr. Ellesmore, a
linise-dealer. The demand for the work, wbich
ru k upwards of six weeks to do, was stated by the
witnesses to be very fair and reasonable
lo •inount ; and that a considerable part of it was
eves, under prime cast.
Mr. SCARLET?, for the Defendant, contended
tliai this •as au attempt to impose swots Isis Client
;t III( Al unjust demand. He acquitted the Plaintiff
or inking any pert its the original design. but he
ivsi,ted that he had afterwards led lainieelf to it in
a mousier not quite josii6able. The agreement
het Wit en the Defendant and Mr. Leslie, calling him-
t.t. If Lord Newark, was, that the latter was to pay
one pound a week, and that the Defendant was to
hear half the expense of putting the cottage into
recessary repair. Was it to be supposed that
the Defendant, for the coorsicleretion of a rent
et* one pound a week, intended to subject
himself to an expense of perhaps several hun-
dred pounds ? It was quite absurd to suppose that
he ilid. All that the Defendant agreed tit pay was
fr%s half for necessary, not ornamental repairs. He
ass instructed that it; should be able to spelt, that
euit:rge was hired by Mr. Haggerty. who per-
sonated the character of Lord Newark's servant,
for his Lordship, representing that it was for a new.
married couple. He should also prove, that none
or the work was cedered by the Defeudant, and
that the Plaintiff himself knew it to be doing on
the credit of Lord Newark alone. Rut breeds; this,
he undertook to slow that the Plaintiff's demand
far exceeded what it ought to be, fur that his
charges were most eat firkagallb
The CIIIEF JCSTICE, in summing up the case
for the Jury, said it was fur them so consider
whether she Plaint ti had given etttlst to Lord
Newark, or to that person and Capt. Ash, jointly
—if the former. then their verdict should he Tor the
Defendant—if the latter. fur the Plaintiff.

The Jury found a verdict fur the Defaudauf.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Gutunum,

SATVILDAY, Dimwits I.

ACTION OF TRESPASS.
REED V. KEELEY.

Mr. Srrjetut ONBLOW Eased the case, winch, he
olpiersed, was rather a singular one. from the ex-
traordinary manner in which the Defendant took
-what was called the lnw Into his own hands. The
Plaintiff, Lydia Reed, was an aged %roman, who in-
habited a cottage of the Defendant's on the Edge.
ware-road, .1 which the latter endeavoured to re-
himself while occupied by the fornwr, in the
following extraordinary manner : He cam* to the
irousi! on the 41st Dec-sober lase, a•4d asked the
add wont in to let tutu sit; she refused, and tie lan.
mediately brought a carpenter, who ;rat u ladder up
the front of the hotline. and mourrird himself upon
the roof, and taking out some of the tile., etvered
the aisle; he afterwards made a hole through the
and left both ',lacer open, our a. to admit
the rain. Whe•r the tow ...miim employed an at-
turner to write to hita. he only arnowered by saying,
that she must turn out m.rantly, fur as to law he
lie Aid set care fur it--law ars at little so him a n
letter.

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'fne but warms r►lird woo Lydia Heed, who de.
pawed to the Irmo ►tared by Cuursiel. la her erase.
rsomioation by Mr. Srrjeonot PELL. ►le said ►he
koew that bet mother Om l'lonesti) paid nut fur