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LAW nmeterGENCE. •
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
&furs CidefJastice DALLAS and a Npaial Jury.

THOMPRON b. CLOYF.R.

Mr. Serjeant 01111L0N:*;efito the Jury, that this was
an action, brought by a gentlemen of the Lome or Thnulp
SIM against Miss Emily Glover, to recover •Ilogriber up
wards of one thousand patriot., tine to him Upon a note uf
hand fur one hundred pounds, an aremint, romprelteiteling
item. to the /monist of fifty paumbi. and a Valera' I harp.
Of it irtit hundred pounds for bawd, Italgeng, and
maiva-
nance during a series of years. Ile observed, that It was a
case *barb had referetice to unplearant family disputes.
The CHIN/ JusTlc, here ineerposcti and observed, that if
it was a rase that developed family quarrels, it hail, if pus-
elide, better Ire referred to a more private tribunal; but the
C sal fur the Defendant out comtemitig,
Mr. Seejeant ONSLOW euulinued has address he sletell,
that undoubtedly the•Delfritelant was entitled, if she Omagh'
proper, to have 'because publicly heard; for his awn vett, he
Ikunght the tliseassion was one which had better ased be
brought before the public; be statit, that the more con-
siderable part of his client". demand was fur four year.'
board and lodging tit the Plaintiff's Seal al Henley Castle,
In the comity of tVorrealtr, where the Plainitir •5 Ord
time resided in • slate of very considerable of laence
and prosperity. The Defendant, who was a roma
lady of high hopes and expectations, remained at his
house duriog the period in qurstine, ettjayiog all the
advantages his task its 'society afforded her. :she haul the use
of his carriages and horser, us to Its all the pigtail of I.4.llittot.
able resort—in the summer to Cheltenham, and 01:ief water-
ing pi ices, and, in short, lived in the stale or a "eating lady
of Gloster and fashion. It ems nut mitre thou she was
entitled to from hue birth, noel the former aitet titian of leer
faintly ; but it was itilreaSUltallie she almalel expel to eirjoy
those advaotagt aat !lie expense of the Plaintiff. Hr *lmola
hare conaiderial her as a lady of sou proud a spirit to be
indebted to any individual whatever or her support. The
Plaintiff bird anirrled lien sister, and, by a strange tvrerae
of fortuhe, Lad fallen from a stale of 'flat nee to our OS ad-
verally and dialer's: he was no longer able to Filippo,' his
funnier eatablislitheni, but, on the runtrare, had been obliged
to retire, front economical mot ises, into Era are Ile Milli-
rally exported that, upon this /Mirage its his rond.tion, lias
Glover, the youtag lady whom he bail so hole befriended;
• when she had it iU her power, kart. paid the debt
she had contracted. She was waft-city abh to discharge
the d. hi, fur she had soft, married a gentler/4n of a very -
large fortutie. It was not to be coittended, that site Plain.
tiff was bound to maitsimie the Defendant iU is style of
exteavagance, her nu lithe erasure than because she ail. his
wife's *MIT. With fficarii to that part of 'be gh•ocma *loch
consisted of the lode of hand, be could tad cut-riser any
possible defence that could be beitualit forward—as tittle
answer could be given to the acconat whirls bad setts oily
been setitled by herself. 'Pith respect to the protested de.
nand fur her inaintenaisce, the Joey would he the most com.
petrol judges. Sorely they could nut Consider, that for the
board and lestigieig of a puma lady. moving m an rlegatet
.phi re u.f life, with looses tool eat rms.!. aat her eueneimad,
one hundred and fifty pout tn.' a yese tc., to. Hoick The
leartied Serje•nt ;mid lie l.l prove the ease., which, he
had no eltinht, would entitle. hint lit a verdict.
A grout slain of the name of Bell,oll was called, who prov.
rd that thus young Indy bail hard oath the Plaintiff at Hea-
ley C:na le, during the period glottal by the Learned Ser.
jeans; that she lived in a very gimlet I style, and he hail
heard I:er express her anxiety to relie re the weight on her
Mill(' in consequence of the expense to whirls she had pot
her brother-tea-law. 'floss rune., Commit rid that the
ehirge of One hundred and fifty pouteda 3-year was satyr
moderate, takiiig his criterion flans the charge usually
made at boarditic•honsett. On his cross von:inmate', be
said he understood that Miss Cluter's father luad brew a
man of (wiggle, lint had, previous to his drills, become
itivolte el lie had never hewed that Mrs.
Glover, the Defendant's mother, bad 6,11 matotained br the
different branches of the family. Ile knew the young Lady.
Ilse Defend's'', hail at times beets in dishes', tau ina to Thar
father's affairs nut having been arranged. 'tittle's had lent
her ''aunty, NIA had had recourse to h teals meatus to eel-niter
is ; but title, be stated, was bruise sloe had paltlished err.
lain libels against Is. na,fiar which, when they si I for tete',
her Counsel, at ti:e Assize* for %Via rester, had titetleigeard.
It was lepton such apology that he hail withdi ass II the act ilia,
and eniinnitreil sit variance with her and her feta.' y as an end.
A servant, tamed Lewitt', also proved the 03 le in *hitch
Miss G'over lowed at the Plaintiff's looter. fie said she bad
a horse, gig, and a Servant or Kornai to tide after tier ;
upon 1114 entss.exonsittalion; be admilietl that the 1'1.46.111T
did tem keep • hater Fir carnage as 1•1:11.1,6e for the Defemlaut,
nor hail he added to leis Viinblishonrust oil hit r account . She
hid the general Recant ',satiation uf the hooae.
Chart, fee:mutt stated his 'beanie, vialted at the Plaits.
tiff's hunse, raid be described the way in which Meats Glover
was artaintnitala till. He had frt fluently %eels the Detetahint
▪ Cheltrilhatn and f watering itlae..s.
His Grace the Duke of ib vonshire was Called to prave the
term. upon which the Plaint itfeuferied I lie Drfeetrin sal had been
ail inmate in his house; hat Les opisteent eat, that she was
living with hint on the Cunt ilia of friendship and alr. chem.
The vit.:nature of the Dchaidant to the cute of hand was
proved, as well as to the adjustment of tar tients cw.taiiicei
in the arenunt.

Mr Seijraill Lttllaildreared the Jury on the part of the Dc.
f.•ndan' ; anti he submit tail, that the demand sib ihptell to be
made by Ire riniotiff on the Defendant was one is 1111111 was not
originally intended to lA' rue.iilered as aeh ; but it ass a
despetate attempt by a ruined man 10 titling moony from
his wife's relative,sad to missal his own affairs by probably
bringing ruin uu another. 11 was a demand which was ure-
thrae raw nor Itutiooranle, and was not One which a brother
ought to make sir a stain fto pay. Their had been no agree.
Olen? itli,lever el:tried into that this young tidy should be
in the Plaintiff's Newly 011 the rumble #### of her paying for
her board and lodging. 'the brae stair of the present case
could have been clearly laid before the Jury it the mother of
the Defendant bad been living; but Ibe Piaiutiff, though los
cause had him for many terms aloud ready tor trial, had
always iposeponed it, because lie knew that the evidence of
the mother would put an end to his Impel' of &dewing a
verdict. The mother had lately died, and it was bemuse
her teseinrony we. now remind that the Plaintiff hid yen.
lured to bring his cause into Court. The Noble witness • lin
had been trilled last uu the put office Plaintiff hail proved
that she was living in his family on the tenor of n sister, an-I
that she appeared to he one of the family. The question
would be, whether there was any engatgemeut actually made,
or implied, that this young lady was to be charged for her
maintenance: even if it had been so intended, whit le he
should clearly prove was nut the case,huvr could the Plaintiff
presume to charge her foe a style of lie-tng which he was not
entitled to have mistimed himself, for dui lug the period she
was living is hisfaniely lees affairs were atistained by Idlaciuur
means, which, he must bare known, could not be confirmed.
It was unbecoming in the Plaintiff Lima. It to have lived to
stick a style of estravagance, and still snore to have per-
nutted his sister to launch intn expenses beyond her iteraua.
Ifni, iii truth, the Plaintiff never had any idea of charging
her, or of considering her liable in pay the eviertise of her '
board; it was au rafter-thought, when he became involved
in difficully and distress. The Leareted Serjeaut admitted,
that if this was the case of a stranger, that cireninstasece
might make some difference. But here was a Sister,
who had been visiting him previous to leer fsthrr'l. death,
and upon the discovery that her father's affairs nape in
an unpruspermis state, he had continued to let her re-
side with him on the seine foutin4 she had previously
dune. With respect eo the note of hand, it was not oaty
signed by the Defendant, but by leer sister; and he should
she*, that so far from having been given for any actual con-
sideration paid to the young lady, it was a mere mete of
accommodation for the puepuee of raising money through
Ilse medium of the mother. who Lad sonic property of
own. The adjustment of the account, lie contended,
was not such a settlement as made the Defendant at all
liable to the minuet of it. It was merely an ailitnavion
that certain charges had beers inclined by the Plaintiff.
It was a material deficiency in lIIC cos.•, that
-be had not proved he bad been put to the least additional
expense on account of this young lady having been ie.
ceived into his family. Thu reel history of the treatise-

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