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London, England, 1847-09-25 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 047.

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when an adjournment took pia
ing creditor to produce his books to prov
istepce of a debt due from the insolvent•
Mr. Rogers, draper, of Bishop's Stortford, the de-
taining creditor, produced his books, in which were
entries of goods supplied to the insolvent.
Mr. COOKE then admitted the existence of the
debt, but submitted that the Court should dismiss this
petition, inasmuch as the arrest was evidently a
friendly contrivance to enable the insolvent to get
rid of his liabilities without any corresponding bene•
fit to the creditors. Mr. Randall, the opposing cre-
ditor, was a tradesman at Bishop's Stortford, against
whom the insolvent, in his capacity of inspector of
weights and measures, laid a complaint, which was
dismissed by the magistrates, and Mr. Randall
brought an action, which he after wards consented to
waive, but the insolvent compelled him to proceed to
trial, when a verdict for the plaintiff and 201. da-
mages was given. The creditor now complained that
the insolvent had procured his own arrest to evade
payment of his just debts.
Mr. Nichols appeared for the insolvent.
The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said this might
be a case for the entire benefit of the insolvent, with-
out regard to his creditors, but since the alteration of
the law the watchfulness of the Court with respect to
friendly arrests had been removed, because the Le-
gislature had thought fit
,to give the greatest facilities
to every debtor to accommodate his own affairs, in
one court or another, at any time that might best suit
himself, the interest of creditors'sbeing little considered.
This Court had, consequently, come to the determi-
nation that where a debt was proved, except under
the most stringent circumstances, the petition should
not be dismissed on the ground of a friendly arrest.
In this case the existence of a debt was admitted, and
therefore the petition would be sustained, although it
would have been more creditable to the insolvent
and the detaining creditor if they had not evaded so
much the question of the friendliness of the arrest.
Mr. COOKE having required the insolvent to amend
his description by inserting Captain Kelly, the case
was adjourned to Thursday.

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of it, and if such harsh proceedings were to be adopted
in all cases, it was manifest that no one would be
safe. The conductor had rendered himself liable to
an action for false imprisonment, and he would re-
commend him to endeavour to make his peace with
the defendant, and to 'offer her ample apology for the
injurious treatment she had been subjected to. He
greatly regretted the annoyance and inconvenience
the defenaant had been exposed to, and he should
order her to be at once discharged.

Court. Exeter, Oct.. 19, at -.1, vett.
At the Court of Review, Oct. 15.
H. King, North-end, Fulham, victualler—J. Coney,
Holderness-wharf, Harrow-road, meson —H. Dicks,
Winsley. street, Oxford-street, and Nicholas-lane, City,
manufacturer of malt and hop extract—T. H. Spence,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, tailor—R. Selby, Burleigh-street,
Strand, wine tnerchat.t —J. T. Sarson, Brunswick-
place, City-road, vinegar dealer— W. H. Burgess, Skin-
ner-street, Seri.t-r .lown, and Great Tower-street, City,
grocer.