The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-10 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE,

IMPORTANT DECISION RESPECTING FREIGHT INSU-
RANCE.—The Court of Common Pleas gave judgment in
the case of " Lee and another v. the Southern Insurance
Company." It was a special case stated by an arbitrator,
and the action was brought on a policy of insu-
rance on the freight of a vessel laden with
palm oil, which was stranded on the Welsh coast. The
cargo was discharged and forwarded to Liverpool by rail,
at a cost of £212 10s.; and the plaintiffs, insurance
brokers, demanded from the underwriters of the freight a
sum of £152, the estimated cost of forwarding it by sea
instead of by land. Th- ship was afterwards got off and
repaired, and the court held that the plaintiffs could not
recover more than seventy pounds, the estimated expense
of warehousing the oil and re-shipping it on board the
original vessel.
THE GAME LAWS. —An appea., from the North Riding
Sessions has been heard in the Court of Queen's Bench by
a person convicted under the Game Act, 1 and 2
William IV., which provides that if any
person shall kill or take any game on a Sunday or
Christmas Day, he shall be liable Ito certain penalties.
The appellant who held an excise lieense, set some snares
on a Saturday. It was not proved that he had been near
the snares on Sunday, but a grouse was found in them.
The questions raised were whether it was an offence to
set snares on a week day, and whether a snare was an
" engine " within the meaning of the Act. The Court
held that allowing the snares to remain set on a Sunday
was an offence against the statute, and the conviction was
affirmed.

DR. EDMUNDS AND THE LIBEL.-At Marylebone, James
Flower has appeared in answer to a summons charging
him with publishing a libel on Dr. Edmunds.
It will be remembered that Dr. Edmunds was one of the
late St. Pancras Board of Guardians, and the libel com-
plained of was a serio-comic " Chronicle of the
City which is called Pancras," criticising the
acts of the parochial authorities. It was pla-
carded in Kentish Town by the defendant, and
the summons was taken out. The magistrate thought the
whole thing was very much like an electioneering squib,
and he doubted whether he ought to send a man to trial
on such a charge. As Dr. Edmunds had elected to seek
his remedy by an action in a civil court for the same libel
which was published in Will-o'-the-Wisp, he should await
the decision of that court, and adjourn the case against
Flower sine die.

A FATAL QUARREL—A tin plate worker, named Joseph
Reeves, has been committed to Newgate for trial for kill-
ing his wife in a quarrel.
EXTENSIVE CAPTURE OF GAMBLERS.—Thirteen men and
boys were brought up at the Clerkenwell Police Court,
charged with gambling in the streets. A mob of between
two and three hundred men and boys were gambling in
Cambridge-street, Agar Town, and as the nuisance had
become very great to the inhabitants, the police made a
raid, and the prisoners were captured. Four of the de-
fendants were discharged, but the others, much to their
surprise, were sent to prison for seven days, without the
option of a fine.
THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—Another application has
been made, in Judges' Chambers in the case of Padwick
v. the Duke of Newcastle, when two questions were
discussed, and as to a feigned issue, and one as to whether
the trial was to be postponed until after the House of
Lords had decided the appeal on the part of the
duke. Mr. Tidy, for Mr. Padwick, said it might
be two years, before the House of Lords decided
the appeal, and Mr. Padwick objected to being
kept out of his money. Mr. Baron Pigott, after some
discussion, made an order as to the feigned issue, and said
the question of prstponement would be open to further
consideration on the question of security. It was time the
case was put into a proper train for settlement.
MISTAKING A WIFE.—An elderly man, named
Wornell, of respectable appearance,. was brought
_up
at Marlborough-street on a curious charge. He
had watched and followed and threatened a young
woman, named Hayward, whom he believed to be
his wife, but, who refused to acknowledge him. He
called several witnesses, including his wife's sister, but
they all gave evidence against him, declaring the young
woman was a stranger to him. The defendant said he knew
his wife by her having two false front teeth,
but the young woman's teeth were all sound. The magis-
trate, after expressing his surprise at the defendant's
obstinacy, required him to find bail for six months.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—The May General Sessions of
the peace for the county of Middlesex was opened
at the Sessions _House, Clerkenwell-green, before Sir
W. H. Bodkin, Assistant Judge, Mr. Serjeant Cox,
Deputy Assistant Judge, and the following magis-
trates :—Mr. H. H. Harwood, Dr. Jervis, Mr. Twenty-
man, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Reeves, Mr. Murray, Mr. Cox,
Mr. Elson, Capt. A. Palliser, Mr. B. Sharp, Mr.
Marshall, Mr. Baxter, Sir James Tyler, &c, The calendar
is rather lighter than usual, there being only 68 prisoners
for trial (exclusive of bail cases), including 58 charges of
felony and 10 of misdemeanour. No cases of interest were
dealt with.

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BREACH OF PROMISE.—The case of Frost v. Knight,
for breach of promise, has been concluded in the Court of
Exchequer. It will be remembered that the defendant
promised to marry the plaintiff on the death of his
father, and the defence was that the father not being
dead the plaintiff could not sue the defendant for breach
of promise.—The Court took time to consider its judg-
ment.

THE LIVERPOOL TRAMWAY COMPANY.—A motion was
heard before Sir R. Malins for an injunction to restrain the
Liverpool Road and Railway Omnibus Company from
running on the tramways belonging to the Liverpool Tram-
way Company. It appeared that the defendants hadaltered
the wheels of their omnibuses to fit the plaintiff's tram-
ways. The Vice-Chancellor held there had been a clear
infringement of the plaintiff's right, and granted the in-
junction asked for.