The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-21 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEE. 20.

POCOCK V. BILLING.
This was an action to recover 3001., being the value of a bill
of exchange, of which the defendant was the acceptor, and the
plaintiff the last endorsee.
Mr. Serjeant PELL stated the case for the plaintiff, and called
the following evidence :
'Wm. Kimble deposed, that in May last he called on the der
fendant for payment of a bill of exchange of 3001. It was the
same as that now produced. The defendant refused to pay the
bill. The names of Pyble and Wells were endorsed on the
back of the bill.
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN.—About the
time the bill was presented for payment, the plaintiff was a pri-
soner in the King's Bench prison. The defendant, when he
refused to pay the bill, said that he should be indemnified bt
Mr. Elmore, who was the assignee of Gray, the drawer of the
bill. He did not say that Gray had parted with the bill with+
out consideration in order to cheat his assignees.
The bill was then put in. It was drawn in August, 1821:
and became due on the 17th of February, 1822.
A witness proved Gray's writing on the bill.
Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN addressed the Jury for the de'
fendant, and stated that he would call evidence to pro
that the bill had got into the hands of the plaintiff under,
' circumstances of such suspicion as to render it necessarif
if he hoped to succeed in the present action, to prodao.
proof of having given a consideration for it. The eircuell
stances of the case, as they had been described to him' On
as he believed they would appear- in evidence, were, tht,
Gray, who was a horse-dealer in Oxford road, became a ban'";
rupt in 1821, and endeavoured to defraud his estate by
the bill which was the foundation of the present action, togethee
with several others, to a person named Pyble, who, witboil
receiving any consideration, gave them to another person naive'.
Wells, and from him they passed into the hands of Mr. l'°`
cock, the plaintiff.
, ' George Whittyhall stated, that some time in 1822, a shit
time before the bill became due, he was in company with Pyble
and Wells, at the house of tha-latter. Some conversation arc's.,
respecting the bill which Pyble said he had given to Well.?
who was to give it to Pocock to get it discounted. He under
stood that no consideration had been given for the bill by 30
of the parties.
Other witnesses were called who proved that the plaintiffbilfit
paid away the bill, which was afterwards returned upon 11;;
hands, and that he kept it in his possession for a considerahw
time without taking any steps against the defendant.
The Loup CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the evidence, arl,„
observed, that it was for the Jury to consider whether the e,'",
curnstances attending the transaction were not sufficiently 615
picious to require the plaintiff to produce proof that he h
given a consideration for the bill.
The Jury retired to consider of their verdict, and after beill
absent for about two hours, returned with a verdict for 1.4'
defendant.

TRANSPORTATION OF CONVICTS.-The Chan
man convict ship is ordered to Portsmouth to receive on hoarZ
180 convicts for conveyance to New South Wales. The Pharr,
convict ship will receive on board, at Sheerness, 200, and r",,
Countess of Harcourt 170 convicts at Woolwich, in order
their being_ conveyed to the • same destination. Hunt will be
transported in the latter vessel.

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