The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-20 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE--(This Day.)

COURT OF' EXCHEQUER.
SECOND COURT.

(Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Common Jury.)

DOLAMORE V. NICHOLSON AND OTHERS.

The plaintiff in this action is a bottled beer and ale
merchant, carrying on business at 32, We,tminster-road,
and the defendants 'Messrs. Nicholson, Lily, and Smith,
the former known as the celebrated " Lord Chief Baron"
of the Coal Hole Tavern in the Strand, and the action
was brought to recover a sum of money for ale and porter
supplied to the defendants. Nicholson had paid 4/. 15s.
6,1. into court. The other defendants pleaded never in-
debted.

It appeared from the evidence that Nicholson and
Lily entered on the speculation of providing refresh-
ments in booths on the ground at the cricket match
at Kingston and the Dunmow festival, where Mr.
Ainsworth's flitch of bacon, about which the learned
counsel for the plaintiff wittily remarked "there was
plenty of gammon," was presented according to ancient
custom to the happy pair who, for the first 12 months
after marriage, had found the marriage state really one
of bliss, and no wish had haunted their thoughts or had
escaped their lips that they hAd never been married.
Both events came off on the same day ; but previously
the defendant Nicholson gave a person named Wiggons,
a commission agent, two written orders for bottled beer
and porter, which he signed in the names of Nicholson,
Lily, and Smith. These orders were handed over to the
plaintiff; who supplied thm goods, and the question was the
terms of the bargain. Mr. Smith, in the course of the
trial, was called, and swore he was no party to the spe-
culation and never permitted Nicholson to affix his name
to the orders; consequently his name was withdrawn
from the record, and a verdict passed in his favour.
The case occupied the attention of the Court the greater
portion of yesterday and up till one o'clock to-day,
when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for
271. odd against the defendants Nicholson and Lily.
In the Court of Exchequer, before the Lord Chief
Baron, two special jury cases had been set down for
hearing, but the records in both cases were withdrawn.
His lordship afterwards proceeded with a common jury
case, to recover a sum of 80t. advanced on cottages
situated at Manchester.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, Lord Campbell was
engaged in hearing a part-heard case relative to a
charter party, and Mr. Justice Erle, in the Second
Queen's Bench Court, sitting in one of the Committee-
roorys, a part-heard case, Marks v. Watts and another,
assignees, an interpleader action to test the validity of
theplainti ff's purchase of her son-in-law's goods, who
had become a bankrupt. The plaintiff, a Jewess, caused
some amusement by the manner in which she answered
the questions of Mr. O'Malley, one of the learned
counsel for the defendants. She stated she had a great
deal of money, but fenced the questions put to her
where she kept it ; but, being hard pressed, said she
kept notes in pockets in her stays, and gold in drawers.
She evidently imagined she was divulging a great secret
by her admissions ; but as to what drawers, or where
they were situated, she pertinaciously refused to satisfy
the learned counsel.