The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-03 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sittings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Justice
Erle, and Justices Williams, Willes, and Byles.)

SHEPHERD V. PAIN AND OTHERS.

The plaintiff was the registrar of the archdeaconry
court of Colchester, and the defendants were the
churchwardens of a parish within the archdeaconry.
It was the custom to hold two visitations within
the archdeaconry court of Colchester, and the ques-
tion raised for the opinion was whether the plain-
tiff had a right to claim and recover fees from the
churchwardens in respect of such visitations, which
he contended he had.

Mr. Justice Willes this morning delivered the
judgment of the Court, and said the Court found
that the office of registrar was a freehold office, and
that its existence was essential to the performance
of some of the functious of the archdeacon. The
Court had every reason to believe that the plaintiff
was entitled to the fees, and gave judgment for the
plaintiff.
Judgment for the plaintiff accordingly.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice Keating
and a Common Jury.)
MALIN AND WIFE V. COOPER.

This was an action to recover compensation in
damages for injuries sustained through the alleged
negligence of the defendant's servant.
Mr. Collier, Q.C., was counsel for the plaintiff.
Mr. O'Malley for the defendant.
It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff's
wife that she was in the defendant's public-house,
the Green Gate, at Bow, with her husband and
some of her children on the evening of Easter Tues-
day. A female came in and asked for a jug of hot
water, which was handed to her by the barman,
who, whilst he was handing it with one band,
tried with the other to catch hold of the young
woman. The consequence was that the hot water
was spilt over the plaintiff's wife, which scalded
her neck and chest, and she was unable to do her
work for several weeks.
The defence was that it was a mere accident, and
that only a small portion of the water fell on the
plaintiff's wife. The accident occurred through no
negligence on the part of the barman.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—.
Damages, £l5.

COURT OF
.EXCHEQUER.
(Sittings in Banco, in Trinity'Perm, before the
Lord Chief Baron and Barons Bramwell, Martin,
and Channell.)
BRUCE V. JONES.

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and in which a verdict was returned for the plaintiff.
A rule had been obtained on several
grounds for
a new trial, and was argued at considerable length
on Saturday, but the details are devoid p
of any gene-
ral interest,
The Court now made the rule absolute be-
cause the verdict was against
evi-
dence, intimating that they thoughtthe weight of
there had been

no misdirection by the learned judge who presided.
at the trial.
Rule absolute accordingly.
THE DERBY DAY.

The Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas,
and Exchequer will not sit at nisi prius on Wed
nesday (to .morrow) Derby-day.

T.HE ALLEGED DEATH FROM CHLOROFOFE•

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

Yesterday morning the adjourned inquiry waS
resumed before Mr. Walthew, at the Dock Hotel,
Upper East Smithfield, respecting the death of
Pierre Pellitier, aged 36 years, who it was alleged
had died from the administration of chloroform.

The Deputy Coroner recalled Mr. Grant, the
medical gentleman who made the post-mortem
examination, who said that he has since made a
further inspection of the body, when he found two
fistulous openings, The mouths of the apertures
were very small, and not sufficient to injure his
health. The administration of chloroform would
be exceedingly hazardous, as the deceased was suf-
fering from disease of the heart and lungs, It should
be administered with a great deal of caution when
a patient suffered from the diseases he had named.
It was a mistake to say that he discovered fatty de-
generation of the heart, as he could not in the state
the body was in discover such a disease.
Alfred Dieudonno was then called, and said that
before the operation on the day in question he exa-
mined the deceased's chest for an hour. He had
administered chloroform at least 400 times, and had
never met with an unsuccessful case before. He
bad performed operations under chloroform in Lon-
don successfully.

Deputy Coroner—What did you give to the re•
gistrar as the cause of death ?
Dr. Dieudonne—l handed the registrar a certifi-
cate to the effect that the deoeased had died of
chloroform.

Dr. Charles heath was next called, and said that
he believed that the use of chloroform in the case
was very proper, and he should have done so if he
had had charge of the case. He believed that there
was a good pulse, and Dr. Dieudonne was quite
justified in using chloroform. He believed that the
condition of the right side of the heart was through
the efforts to resuscitate the patient, and did not
exist before death.

After some further remarks by the medical men,
The -Deputy Coroner read over the whole of the
voluminous testimony, remarking on the chief points
of the case, and observed that there did not appear
to be any blame against Dr. Dieudonne, who had.
done all he could in the case for the welfare of the
deceased.
The Jury returned the following special verdict :
—" That the deceased died from the administration
of chloroform to allay pain during an operation for
fistula, given to him by his own request, and that
his death was produced by mis-adventure."

DEATH OF A CHEMIST FROM MORPHIA.

Yesterday evening Mr. Bedford, the coroner for
Westminster, resumed an inquiry at the Devonshire
Arms, Moreton-street, Pimlico, touching the death
of William Johnson Bolwell, aged 45, a chemist,
reaming at 19, Moreton -place, Pimlico, who expired
suddenly in a coffee-house in Charlotte-street, kept
by Mr. Heather, on Saturday morning, the 24th
May, under suspicious circumstances.
At the first inquest, which was held on Tuesday
last, William Griffiths, surgeon, of Belgrave-road,
said on the day in question he received an urgent
message to go to the above coffee-house. He found
the deceased there in bed in a state of insensibility.
His breathing was oppressed and laborious, but not
sterterous. His pulse was feeble and the feet cold.
He administered what remedies he thought advis-
able, but deceased never rallied, and expired in about
three hours. He had no doubt he died from apoplexy.
The inquiry was adjourned, for the examination
of deceased's stomach, and resumed yesterday, when
Joseph Edward Rodgers, surgeon and analytical
chemist, of Denbigh-street, said he had examined
the stomach of deceased, which he received from Mr.
Griffiths in a jar. He had examined the contents
very carefully, and he found a quantity of morphia.
He considered it was what remained over and
above sufficient to destroy life, or over what had
been absorbed. He had no doubt that death was
caused by morphia. The symptoms were just
the same as those of apoplexy. In fact it
was apoplexy caused by morphia. The disease of
the kidneys under which he laboured would make
a small quantity fatal which might otherwise be
taken with impunity. The softening of the brain
might cause imbecility.
Other evidence was taken, but nothing waselicited
to show what induced the deceased to leave his home
to go and sleep at a coffee-house.
The coroner then summed up the evidence, and
the jury returned a verdict that deceased died from
apoplexy induced by morphia, but whether taken
medicinally or not there was no evidence to show.

COUNTRY MARREIAS:

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COLCHESTER-MAY 31.

A middling supply of wheat, but the trade was firmer,
and no change in value. Beans more on offer, and rather
cheaper. Peas scarce.

Wheat, white 56s 60s Beans,Mazagan..3ss 382
red 52s 56s middle & small.3Bs 42s
Barley —s —s Peas, white 38s 42s
Oats