The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 15.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Li.rd Chief
Justice WILDE and a Common Jury.)
SANDERSON V. KEDMITLEY.

This was an action for breach of covenant.
Mr. Sergeant Channel' and Mr. Hoggins were counsel
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Mellish represented the de-
fendant.

Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL', said this plaintiff, Mr.
Charles James Sanderson, is a gentleman residing at
Blaida•hill, and the defendant, Mr. William Keightley,
is trumpet-major in the Royal Horse Guards. In 1842,
a person named Andrews, demised to one Taylor, cer-
tain premises, consisting of seven houses, situate in.
Angel-alley, Bishopsgate•street. Soon after Taylor
took possession of the premises, be assigned them to a
person named Ponder, who, in his turn, assigned them
to the defendant, and the action was brought for a
breach of covenant, in consequence of the non-payment
of a year and a halt's rent.
These facts were put in evidence on the part of the
plaintiff, and
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Mr. MELLISH, for the defendant, in his address to the
jury, submitted to them that the simple question for
them to consider, was whether the defendant, Wm.
Keightley, was the party to whom the lease in question
had been assigned. In order to make him liable for the
rent, it was essential that he should become the assignee
of that lease. The plaintiff said some time in 1845 that
lease was assigned by Thomas Ponder, who was the as-
signee of Taylor, the original tenant, and that Ponder
assigned to the present defendant, William Keightley.
By an Act of Parliament passed in 1544, such as-ign-
ment anuld only be by deed; since 31st September, 1844,
no assignment of any lease of that description could be
made except by deed. The plaintiff had given some
evidence that the defendant was dealing with the pro-
perty as the owner, and that might raise some presump•
don prima facie that he was the assignee, but there was
no evidence to show that Ponder had executed to the
defendant. On the 13th February, 1844, the premises
were assigned to a person named Hazlehurst, and he
(Mr. Mellish) contended that it was perfectly clear that
the plaintiff was well aware of that transaction. Ha-
z'ehurst merely took an interest in the property as
trustee of Adam Keightley, the defendant's sou. On the
3d May, 1844, Hazlehurat assigned to Adam Keigh clay,
and he became the assignee.
Evidence of those facts was given on the part of the
defendant, and
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that t a
Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL was proceeding to address
the jury for the plaintiff; when
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ground intimated
there was no evidence to show that Ponder ever executed
any assignment to the defendant.
The plaintiff was nonsuited accordingly.

THE LAW OF LUNAC Y.
This subject has lately been attracting a great deal of
public attention, and we must own that it was high time
it did se. We perfectly agree with our contemporary,
The Sun, and other leading journals, that a great deal of
injustice and harshness is used towards numbers of those
unhappy people who are confined in madhouses. But
unlike this journal, we do not stop here. We go
further, and while we would introduce a more just and
lenient s)stem in a great many cases, we would, in
others, extend the powers of the Commissioners, and
give them full authority for summarily taking up and
confining among the very worst class of madmen :-
1. All persons imagining the Duke of Richmond is a
great man, and that he will ever restore the reign of Pro-
tection.

2. Every ono who believes it will eventually matter,
in the slightest degree, whether the Lords on the third
reading throw out the Bill for the repeal of the naviga-
tion-laws or not.

3. Every parent who thinks that out of one hundred
persons, particularly young men, who declare that they
are highly gratified when " Baby" is brought in with
the dessert, that ninety-nine do not think it a most in-
tolerable nuisance and wish it at—the top of the house,
iu the nursery.
4. All individuals who imagine that the circulation of
the " Funetic Nuz." will shortly equal that of the Times,
or Puppet-Show.
5. All persons who fondly cherish the idea that merit
has anything to do with a men's obtaining a Govern-
ment situation. And

6. Each and every man, woman, or child paying for an
admis,ioil, or even g-wing with tickets, into the Strand
Theatre to see Mr. 11. Farren —The Puppet Show.

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