The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-02 00:00:00

TAYLOR Y. TYLOR.

This was an interpleader issue in which the plain-
tiff was claimant under a bill of sale dated Feb. 28,
and the defendant was execution creditor, who had
seized the goods under a writ and warrant on the
3d March.

Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. Hance were for the
plainEff ; Mr. Dickie was for the defendant.
It was proved that the execution debtor was
really indebted to the claimant, and the case for
the defendant, the execution creditor, being only
that the writ was dated before the bill of sale, and
no notice being shown to the claimant before the
bill of sale was given.

The Lord Chief Justice said there was no answer
to the claim, and therefore directed a verdict for the
claimant.

Several cases were taken and turned out to be
undefended.

In the next case (No. 12), the plaintiff, an attor-
ney, suing for slander, not being present,
Mr. Hawkins, on bis behalf, applied to postpone
the trial, on the ground that his client was acci-
dentally absent.
Mr. Lush, for the defendant, opposed the appli-
cation. The absence of an attorney plaintiff could
hardly be excused.
The Lord Chief Justice said he was willing to
take any other case which was ready.
No other case turned out to be ready.
Mr. Hawkins remarked that the cases had gone
off much more quickly than had been expected.
Mr. Lush said, on the other hand, it must be
admitted that the absence of a plaintiff, and he an
attorney, who had only yesterday himself entered
the cause, was unexplained, no ground for post-
ponement.
The Lord Chief Justice said the case must be
called on unless a guarantee could be given for the
costs of the day.

This not being given, Mr. Hawkins_' withdrew
the record.
No. 13 was then called on.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT, LIVERPOOL, April I.
(Before Mr. Justice Mellor and Special Juries.)

CLEMENTSON V. THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.

This was action to recover damages for an acci-
dent which occurred to the plaintiff by reason of
the insufficient lighting of the railway station at
Mossley.
Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and Mr. Aspland ap-
peared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Overend, Q.C.,
and Mr. Simon for the defendants.

It appeared that on the 14th of December last
the plaintiff had been dining with his brother, and
was going from Mossley to Ashton by the 5 48
train, and was waiting on the platform of the Moss-
ley station for the balm with a crowd of people.
The old station had been pulled dawn and was
being rebuilt. At one end of the new station a
verandah was building, which was imperfectly
lighted with an oil lamp. At the other side of the
railway there were two gas lamps, which cast a
light across the railway. On the train coming up
the carriages shut out the light given by these
lamps. The plaintiff was under the verandah, in
the crowd, and as the train came up he stepped
back to get out of the way. In doing so he fell
over a block of wood, striking his face against a
large piece of slate. His face was cut, and for a
long time he was confined to the house and unable
to attend to his business of a cotton dealer. He
had since suffered from severe headaches, and was
unable to masticate his food on that side.
The defendant's case was that the station was in
the process of being built, and the plaintiff had
frequently been there, and knew that the building
materials were lying about, and that it was his own
carelessness and negligence which led to the acci-
dent.

The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.—
Damages, £2OO.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.---GLOCESTER, April 1.
(Before Mr. Baron Channell.)
George Collins, 24, a soldier, we's charged with
burglary in the dwelling-house of Francisi Veale, on
the night of the 30th of December, 1861, at Stow-
in-the-Wold.

Mr. R. Arkwright conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner was undefended by counsel.
It appeared that the prisoner was a private in
the Royal Horse Artillery, and on the night in
question he was seen near the premises which were
broken open, but not entered, and evidence was
given that footmarks in a newly-dug garden and in
the snow corresponded with marks made by the
prisoner's boots, but as this evidence was not satis-
factory to the jury, he was acquitted.
The prisoner was then tried upon a charge of
attempting to commit a burglary at another house
in the same neighbourhood and on the same night.
The evidence was similar to that given in the first
case, with the addition that in the yard of the pro-
secutor's house was found an envelope addressed to
the prisoner, and containing a letter written by the
prisoner. Upon this evidence the prisoner was
found guilty, and
Mr. Baron Channell sentenced him to six months'
imprisonment, with hard labour.
Tryphena Wayman surrendered to take her trial
upon a charge of maliciously setting fire to a rick of
straw, the property of Henry Anstey, on the 20th
of February, 1862, at Tortworth.

•
Mr. J. O. Griffits conducted the prosecution ; Mr.
R, Sawyer defended the prisoner.
The prisoner is a young girl, about 15 years of
age, who was formerly in the service of the prose-
cutor as nursery maid. The prosecutor is a farmer
at Tortworth, and on the 20th of February last he
had three ricks in his yard, near his house. At
about 6 o'clock in the evening► the prisoner came
into the kiteilen from the yard, and gave an alarm
that one of the ricks was on fire. This was found
to be the case, and in the result all three ricks, valued
at £250, were consumed. There was no evidence to
connect the prisoner with the fire beyond the fact
that she was seen near the spot just before the fire
was discovered, but when she was taken into custody
by the police she made a statement that she should
not have done it but for another servant, who had
made her a great deal worse, and advised her to do
something to spite her master.
Mr. Sawyer addressed the jury for the prisoner,
but she was found guilty.
Sentence deferred.

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