The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY

EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1849

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 17,
CIVIL :SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.
HIGGINSON AND OTHERS V. TURNER AND OTHERS.

In this case Mr. Watson, Q.C., and Mr. Coaling ap-
peared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr.
Compton for the defendant.

Tl:is was an action brought by the plaintiffs, Mr.
Jonathan Higginson, Mrs. Higginson, and Mr. Dean, as
executors and trustees of the will of the late Mr. John
Higginson, to recover from the possession Of the defend-
nuts,
who are the assignees of the late firm of Barton,
Irlam, and Higginson, of Liverpool, who became bank-
rupts in November, 1846, certain shares in different
companies of which the late Mr. John Higginson was the
owner, and which were left by him to the uses declared
in his will, but which had been seized by the defendants
as assignees of the bankrupt firm of which Mr. Jonathan
Higginson, the sou of the late Mr. John Higginson, was a
partner. It appeared that the late Mr. Higginson by his
will devised 600/. a year to his widow, and 1,0001. each
to his sons, leaving his wife, Mr. Jonathan Higginson, and
Mr. Dean, executrix and executors of his will, to dispose
of the property according to the trusts declared in the
will.• Some of this property, which was in shares in
different companies, being undisposed of, had been
transferred into the name of Mr. Jonathan Higginson,
as executor, and had been taken possession of by the
defendants as his assignees under his bankruptcy.
Evidence was then given that the late Mr. Higginson
was owner of five 1001. and of five 201. shares in the St.
Helen's and Runcorn Gap Railway, paid up. The 1001.
shares were worth 201. each, the others unsaleable. He
was also proprietor of ten 10t. shares paid up in the
Liverpool Cemetry, which, " since the burying trade
had become brisk in Liverpool," were worth 50/. He
also held a share in the Union News Room, the payments
of which were iu arrear, and it was of no known value.
He also owned one share in the athenaeum News Room,
worth 21. 125., and one share in the Exchange News
Room, worth 2201., and some shares in the Commercial
Bank of Liverpool. These facts having been proved, a
verdict was given for the plaintiff for the amount proved.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 422/.
SPOTSWOOD V. BARROW AND ANOTHER.
In this case, a report of which was sent yesterday,
the jury, at five o'clock, returned with a verdict for the
plaintiff.
A great many civil causes have been settled and other-
wise disposed of today.
The cases in the Criminal Court were of the most
uninteresting character.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

The following complaint was made to Mr. HENRY, the
sitting magistrate, and has reference to a dispute of fre-
quent occurrence in the district :
A poor woman named Todd stated that her husband
had been lying dead at King's College Hospital since
Monday last, and she had not the means of burying him,
The directors of the hospital alleged that they had no
funds to appropriate to such a purpose. The parish of
St. Giles, in which the deceased had resided, refused to
bury him, because the death occurred in the Strand
Union; and the guardians of the Strand Union declined
to undertake the burial of the deceased, because he did
not belong to their parish. Thus there was at present
no prospect of the body being interred, although it had
become decomposed and offensive—the deceased having
died of typhus fever, with which he was suddenly at-
tacked in the streets. The widow added, that her hus-
band was a labouring man, and had no friends or rela-
tives who could assist her.

Mr. HENRY observed, that the frequency of these
parish disputes was much to be lamented. The parish
of St. Giles was no doubt relieved of the liability, in such
cases, by a recent decision in the Court of Queen's Bench;
while, on the other hand, it would be very hard to make
the Strand Union responsible, simply because the hos-
pital happened to be situated in that district. His Wor-
ship inquired of the woman how long she had lived with
her husband in St. Giles's parish previous to his decease?
The woman replied that they had resided there up-
wards of 18 years.
Mr. HENRY thought that the overseers of the parish
of St. Giles would hardly persist in taking advantage of
an accident like the present to avoid an expense which
could not be very serious.
An officer present stated that the expense was about
245, usually. . .

His Worship then sent a constable to the relieving
officer of St. Giles's, to represent the urgency of the
case, and the probable danger of keeping the deceased
unburied any longer, and shortly afterwards the Court
was informed that the parish officer of St. Giles's had
consented, "for this once only," to inter the body.
Laura Brown was charged with obtaining goods from
Messrs. Snoolbred and Co., Tottenham•court•road, under
false pretences.

The prisoner had been in the habit of sending a lad
named Carpenter with written orders, in the name of
Mrs. Clack, an outfitter of 102, Oxford-street, and the
goods were invariably supplied, as Mrs. Clack was a
customer of the prosecutors, a fact which had become
known to the prisoner by her being occasionally em-
ployed at the shop of the former.
She was committed for trial on two separate charges.