The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-30 00:00:00

SUMMER ASSIZES.

NORTH Eas tittem. —LANCASTER, Auo. 28.
~,. assns 4.
~.,;;.:- yatrot, V. GRUNDY.
MrAtiiiiAlmt stated that the present action
was brought. by the plaintiff to recover a reasonable
compensation for the injury she had suffered from
the defendant, James Grundy, by his having refused
to fulfil a promise of marriage which he had made to
her, and which she had accepted. The plaintiff,
Anne Hall, was the daughter of one John Hull, a
respectable canal agent, who had amassed consider-
able property fur a person in his humble line of life,
and who had brought up his daughter in a respect-
able manner. The defendant, James Grundy, was
also a person possessed of considerable property in
houses, and he also drove a coach between Man-
cheater and Buxton, of which he was part pre-
prietor. Whether it was love or interest that bud
'educed him to pay his addresses to Anne RA he
(Mr. Brougham) could not tell, but the Jury might
infer which of the two it was, from the fact of his
having had no idea of her till he had once acciden-
tally asked her brother how much of her father's pro-
perty his sister Anne would have : the answer to which
question was that she and the two other children
of John Ilbll (wbo had died intestate) would all
share alike in .his:preperty, the amount of which
was 3,000/, ne: 1,0001. for each child. He then
made up to Ike
,plaintiff, who was far from being
romantic in hPoonons of love, but who being ar-
rived at a critical period of female cabacy, thought it
Much better to marry than burn, when the opportunity
o fered. She listened to his tale of love, and became
attached to him, and taking all into consideration,
she was justified in her attachment, as the match was
it very reesenuble one. Subsequently, however, the
defendant declared he had found a wife with 1,700/.,
and us she had more money than Anne Hall, so she
had the preference with him ; the upshot of it was,
therefore, that the plaintiff was left by this good-for-
little fellow, and now came before them to obtain
compensation for the injury she had sustained, as
well in her situation as in her feelings, by the con-
duct of James Grundy. The Jury would probably
be addressed by his Learned Friend next him (Mr.
J. Williams), who packed a great deal in a very small
compass.— (A laugh.)—When he said so, he beg ed
to be miderstooJ to mean, that his Learned Fri
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Ispeeches were generally very compact, and ink lo
the point ; his friend would probably attempt to laugh
the case out of court by calling it a paltry action,
and such like epithets, but he (Mr. Brougham)
hoped he would not; he hoped he should not hear
Irma his Learned Friend any such arguments, as that
actions of this kind were out of keeping with the
situation of the parties, and that such actions ought
not to be brought by persons in the middle station
of life. The Learned Counsel then culled
John Hall, who is plaintiff's brother, has known
James Grundy for two years. Grundy drives the
Bruce couch between Manchester and Buxton. In
February last witness travelled by the Bruce to
Manchester. His father had died the precedirg
January, intestate. Grundy asked him to come on
the coach-box, and questioned him as to the division
of his father's property. Witness replied, that he
and another brother, and his sister Anne, were to
share it equally, and that their respective shares
would be 1,0004 each. Grundy immediately invited
witness to his house in Manchester. Witness went
there, and was taken through all the rooms and
shown the furniture. Greedy then told him that
he could see be wanted for nothing, and his sister
Ann had nothing to do but to " hang her bonnet up,"
for he'd have her.
Cross-examined by Mr. JOHN WILLIAMS—The
day on which Grundy spoke to him übout his sister
was Dot Valentine's-day, though it Was somewhat
near the middle of February; Grundy is a jolly red-
faced man, who limps a little; could not say how
old he is; witness's sister Anne is 28 years of age.
Mrs. Hall, the wife of die preceding witness, had
known Grundy two years; on the 20th of March
last she was directed by Anne Hall to look out fur the
Bruce coach; she went into the front garden and
did so; the coach presently came by, when Grundy,
who was driving it, stopped, and gave a person called
Slater, who was with her, a letter, saying, " Give
that to Miss Hall."
The letter was here put in and read; it was
couched in a mixed style of business and love, and
contained a formal appointment of the day for the
wedding to take place.
Eliza Williams, servant to Sykes, stated, that on
the morning of the 20th of April, the defendant, tic.
companied by a friend of his, a hackney-coachman,
Cottle to the house of Sykes, and asked where all the
folks were: it was at eight in the morning. Witness
said Amine Hall would lie down directly,und ran up to
call her; she went in* Anne's bed-room, and told
her that Grutultiejk.rti.eSlie jumped up, and
said she w0u1d401!,7 tliry. Witness %vent and
told Gruedy so, .' Jj-Zitr;,l,l!, " Oh I so she's not
cotnieg. Wititi::: "
.: *itrirs again, and came