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London, England, 1805-08-03 00:00:00

L.4W REPORT.

CW)RT OF Cl-L\ AUG. 2.

ANIIIIT.LOCKi. V. SIDENHAWAND OTftERS.

The Plaintiff.sueCinforma paiiperis,' The.bill
Wag filed apinst the Defendant Sidenharn, Mr.-Bur-
nell, Mr. J. F. Luttrell, Sir P. Hales, and others, to
recover, p 0 ,es ion of an estate valued at 14,6001, per
tinntvi, • w pick it waii alledged, the Defendants
Wrc)nn-fully keep him from possession of. The plead-
is,o-s- were stated by Mr. PLownit4 (w'ho, with:the
A'll;olCligY GE'NER AL and Mr. Romtr.t.y, were as-
•signecl its. Counsel), 'from which. it appeared that an
ancestor of the Plaintiff died in 1651 , and that the
estate ehtaileddescended'in a right line until the year
17."12, when the grandfather of the Plaintiff died,
leaving his wife encien4; who was shortly after deli-
wred of a son, • the father of the
,Plaintiff; that in
1737 h heame of age, married, and had this son
and a daughter, who, was married to Sidenham,
one of the present Defendants, who placed the Plain-
tiff at .seh4X 1, under the name. IVidLaki,. in order to
.110ep froni hi knowledge his claim to the estate ;
t.Lat the school-master,.-- however,' let him ,into the
seeret.i)f his birth, and called. hick by his proper
name. That the Defendant wrongfully did sell to the
other Defendants the estate, and thatwith

of his being bele, they did 'purchase. the, sarde.
It is alledged further, arnonga variety.of allegations,
that SidenharnWaS merely,trustee for the Plaintiff.
To these pleadings, on the pert of-the Defendant,
there was a ge;teral kinurrer to the allegation, and
it was contended that a variety' of extraneous Matter'
way introduced.
In the .course of the obje6tions to the allegations,
and to the eitraneous matter, it was contended that
the bill ought not to be placed on the files of the
- Court an the latt,r account. On "the other side, to
she that bills were filed of thAt-d escription, tt story
was told of a certain Gentleritln of respeelability in
tit Court), who liad laid a large bet that he would
'introduce Into EChancery bill matter quite irrele-
vant to the complaint. Ho., accordingly introduced
the .-popular Ballad of-" Chevy Chace," from be-
g'lrinlng to end; the bill "a6tually Was" signed and
filed by the proper Officer, and when the.-pleadina
were ricked by the Counsel on the day it came On'
for hearing" beture the venerable Lord TIORLow,
the Counsel was confounded, and the Court was
convulsed with laughter.

BAILEY V. BAILEY.
• .•
This was a case in whiCh the LORD CHANCELLOR
had: delivered judgment, but which was brought for
wad 'azain to-day, 'and the ,Learned Gentleman at
the liar srbmitted, whether the Defendant had not
in -some pr one of his five answers, which were all
oated.to be. defective, admittO that there' was a.ba-
lance of accOunts di4e from him, to. the estate of the
Plaintiff to ;the amount of 8.1161. 'for if he had, Mien
the application tbat_he, do bring the money into
Court,must be successful. But his Lordship retained
the opinion he delivered yesterday upon this sub-
there was no, specific aeknowledgment on
the part of the Defendant tug any part of his answers,
that this balance, Was due
..froM Min, and therefore
no order could be made before the hearipg of the
cause to etal'pel him to pay the money into Court.
This Gentleman had answered to the allegations of
the Bill, five times, seemingly with a full 'determina-
tion lever to answer at all if he Gourd help if.; and
bad hitherto avoided acknO/ledging specifically that
he owed this balance. He admitted that a balance
'had been struck?. but that was in an account which
.he denied the jUstness of, which denial bis Lordship
did not think he would be able to repeat the-
Cogstio been put properly to him ; however,
he had itithertoskept out of such 'admission as alone
would make him liable to pay money into Court,
and :therefore no order could be . Made' on him for
that purpo3e until the bearing atilt cause.. .A.s ,to
Mr. Allies, the admission; with regard to him, was
sufficient for the order for payment of money into
Court ; bu that was only one-third of the whole
sum, tieing his proportion under, the, circumstances
of the case, without,prejlidice to the ,joint respon-
sibility of the Defendant for the whole. its Lord-
ship laic the rules of the Court would not allow
him to go further nor would he !sulk himself to
bay' more nn what he t'elt on this business, when the
Court appeared to be baffled in what appeared to be
so clear a case,---Ordered, " That Me :Alves do pay
iota the Court one-third of this balance;admitted to
be due, &e. without prejudice to the Defendant's
liability for the whole."