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London, England, 1834-02-24 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY, FEB. 22.

REGISTRAR'S OFFIC E. •••• BIGG AND HANSARD.

Sir EDWARD SUGDEN informed the Lord Chancellor
that he held in his hand an affidavit of his client's (the
solicitor to the plaintiff in this case), stating that he had
obtained an order calling upon the defendant to pay a sum
of money into this Court. It was regularly sent to the
Registrar's office to be drawn up, but, owing to the great
pressure of business in that office, he was unable to get it
done until after the time allowed for the order had ex-
pired. It had, therefore, become a mere nullity.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, in consequence of a
strong recommendation from the Committee of the House
of Commons to reduce the number of clerks in the Regis-
trar's office, he (the Lord Chancellor) had been induced to
try the reduction as an experiment. He had received
complaints from the Registrars, that in consequence of the
reduction of the number of clerks, the business of their
offices could not be regularly attended to. He had taken
it into his most serious consideration, and believing it to
be detrimental to the interest of the sui.ors, he should
restore the full number.

Sir EDWARD SUGDEN asked his Lordship if he could
not do something for his client, to remunerate him for
the loss?

The LORD CHANCELLOR assured the Learned Counsel
that any affidavit bis client might think proper to make
should meet with his most serious attention.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 21.

ST. AGNES COPPER HINE ASSOCIATION. CAMPBELL V.

IrLE)IING.

The plaintiff, Colonel John Campbell, brought this
action aeainst the defendant for money had and received
from a person named Jones, under peculiar circumstances.
Mr. POLLOCK stated that the defendant and a person
named Jones, having entered into a mining concern in
Cornwall, called the East Pink Mines Association and the
United St. Agnes Mines, opened an office in Pope's Head-
alley for the sale of shares. In conet quence of an adver-
tisement in the Times, Colonel Campbell purchased one
hundred shares in the mining concern for 5,0001. The
money was paid by Jones to the defendant, Mr. Archibald
Fleming, Chairman of the Company. The latter, how-
ever, received 1,6001. of the sum as a debt due to him
from Jones, and said he would carry over the balance to
the mining account. The shares sold were said to be the
property of Mr. Alderman Brown, of Northampton, who
was desirous of raising a marriage portion for his daughter,
but upon inquiry Colonel Campbell discovered that state-
ment to be utterly false. The shares had never been in
the possession of Alderman Brown ; on the contrary, it
appeared that Mr. Brown, a licensed victualler, had been
the holder of 50 shares in the mine concern, 20 of which
he sold to Fleming in 1824 at Si. a share. Thirty he
sold to another person at prime cost, namely, 2/. a share.
As Colonel Campbell had been called upon for 50/. a
share, and induced to pay that sum by a false account of
the capital of the Company entered in a book, he thought
himself justified in applying to a jury for redress. The
learned counsel called witnesses, at the conclusion of
which,

Sir JAMES SCARLETT submitted that the plaintiff must
be nonsuited. The case had been opened as a fraud on
Col. Campbell, got up between Fleming and Jones, but
it was clear upon the evidence that Mr. Fleming was no
party to the fraud, and that he could not be liable.
Plaintiff nonsuited.