The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-19 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec. 18.
The Loan CHANCELLOR disposed of several unop-
posed lunatic petitions to-day, and then proceeded to
hear appeals.

IN THE MATTER OF TAYLOR, A LUNATIC.
This case came before his Lordship upon the petition
of the two sons of the lunatic, who died last Monday,
praying that they might be at liberty to open a box,
labelled as containing the will of the lunatic, for the
purpose of reading it, to ascertain whether it contained
any directions with respect to his funeral, and also that
they might be at liberty to take it to a proctor, in order
to its being proved in Doctors' Commons.
His LORDSHIP made the order as prayed.

TRAILL V. BULL.
The further arguments in this part-heard application,
occupied his Lordship the remainder of the morning.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Dec. 18.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took
unopposed cause petitions, short causes, petitions, and
e iuses to-day. 4`,

BRAY V. LAYCOCR.

This case came before the Court, upon the petition of
the executor of a wealthy gentleman who died at Lc'a-
mington, praying for a reference to the Master to inquire
whether the sum of 5001, or what other sum ought to be
paid for funeral expenses.
It appeared that the testator died at Lemington,
and was buried at York, and that the undertaker, with-
out any orders from the executor, had incurred great
expense, and sent in a bill for upwards of 5001. The
object of the present petition was to justify the executor
n paying so large a sum for funeral expenses.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR, in directing the reference,
observed that Lord Hardwick had ordered on one occa-
sion the payment of 6001. for funeral expenses, although
the estate of the deceased was insolvent.

(Before Vice• Chancellor Sir J. WIGRAM.)
DAWES V. BETTS.—JUDGMENT.

His HONOUR delivered judgment in this cause to-day,
and after going through all the facts of the case, which
have already appeared in this journal, said that the evi-
dence in support of the plaintiff's case had not been at
all shaken by the statements in the answer, and the de-
fendant had entirely failed in proving certain facts which
he alleged, and by which alone the direct evidence in
support of the bill could be rebutted. He had looked
carefully at the agreement, which contained a series of
covenants, and he was of opinion that the plaintiff was
entitled to the specific performance of the contract. It
should be referred to the Master, before whom the plain-
tiff should establish his title ; and when he should have
done this, he would then be entitled to so much of the
costs as were incurred by the resistance of the defendant
tcthe performance of the contract. He would make
Litdecree.

WORSLEY v. FRA3IPTON.—JUDGMENT.
His HONOUR delivered judgment in this cause to-
day. In November, 1832, the testator, Mr. Frampton,
agreed to give plaintiff a lease of certain lands for a term
of sixty-three years. These lands were the property of
the lord of the manor (the testator), and as such it was
not legal to grant a lease for more than twenty-one years.
The testator died, and the plaintiff filed a bill to compel
his trustee, the defendant, to the fulfilment of the specific
performance of this contract, and the matter was re-
ferred to the Master, who proposed that the dekndant.
should sign a covenant, binding himself to renew the
lease at the end of twenty-one years till the expiration
of the term mentioned in the original lease. However,
the defendant declined to enter into this covenant, which
appeared to him strange, as it was by no means disad-
vantageous to him. The question was, whether he could
compel the trustee to enter into anything but a legal
covenant. Now, he was of opinion he could not, and he
would therefore make no special order about it.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. K. BRUCE.)
TAYLOR v. FARMER.
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This wts a motion for an injunction to restrain the
defendant from copying labels which the, plaintiff used
in packing cases of cocoa.—The injunction was granted.
The remaining eases at ti►is Court today wer., of no
general interest.