The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-12 00:00:00

LORD-MAYOR's COURT, OCT. 9.

HOLLOWAY AND ANOTHER, PLAINTIFFS; WAD-
,' DINGTON, DEFENDANT; DAWSON AND OTHERS,
garnishees..
This Aftion was brought by the Plaintiffs, who
are Merchants, against the Defendant Mr. Stephen
Waddington, also a Merchant, to recover a sum of
money, am ,unting to upwards of Sciol-. in the
hands of Messrs. Dawson. The Action was by
process of attachment against Messrs. Dawson, the
presumed holders of the money belonging to the De_
fendant, and who are in this Court terme,i the
Garnishees.
Mr. Serjeant BEST opened the case.on the part of
the Plaintiffs. He stated that Mr. Stephen Wad.
dinetOn was indebted to the Plaintiffs in the stun
demanded of Garnishees ; that he was owner of
I a ship called the Kingston Packet, the proceeds
of which ha had remitted to: Messrs. Dawson, his
Agents, direding them, after the payment of certain
debts due from the ship, to place the' remainder to
his account. • The Plaintiffs, in order. 'to enable
themselves to maintain the present suit, had filed
a Bill on the Equity side of the Court, calling
for a disclosure of all the fads coneeaed with the
case. To this, answers had been put in by the De-
fendant and the Garnishees ; and the result of them,
according to the construdion put'upon shetu by the
Learned Serjeant; was, that the Garnishees had a
large sum of money in their hands belonging to the
Defendant, which was liable to be attached by the.
process cif this Court.—The reading of the proceed-
ings in Equity constituted the whole of the Plaintiff's'
proof. -
Mr. KNOWLYS and Mr. WATSON, who were
Counsel for the Defendant and the Garnishees, con-
• tended, that from nothing contained in the written
evidence laid before the Court could. it be inferred,
that MeSsrs. Dawson had any money of the Defend-
; ant's in their hands. It was true, the Kingston
Packet had been sold, and the money arising by the
• sale had been transmitted to the Garnishees, who had
duly expended the greater part of it in the payment
of debts ; but the. naffs was, that if they, had placed
to the account of the Defendant certain items
with' which they had a right to chaige him, he
would, upon the balance of accounts, have ap-
peared` their Debtor. The Learned Counsel fur-,
ther contended, that Mr. Waddington was only a
4th part owner of the Kingston Packet, . and there:
fOre that although Lis name only appeared in the
transaftion, there were other persons interested in'
the monies in the hands of MeSSrs Dawson. It
was, they said, no unusual thing for one person to
appear in the charaaer of a sole ship-owner, and to
transaft the whole oldie business in his own name, ,
though he might have several partners. They in_
sisted, therefore,' that the 'Plaintiff's- had'fito tight to
recover.
The Recorder, Sir JoIIN Rosa; was proceeding
to observe upon the evidence which had, been pro-
duced, but the Jury seemed so perfectly to compre-
hend the nature of the case, that 'his observations
were unnecessary ; they considered that the plait,.
tiffs Itad not made out a case'ofaiistina property of
the Defendant, in the hands of Messrs. Dawson ;
and accordingly they, returned VArdiCt in favour
of the Garnishees, ' •

On Saturday last the body of'a newborn female
child was found, in a field near -Tadcaster, adjoin_
ing the public highway leading froth thence towards
York, lying with its face in some cdivis thing, and
. covered with a pocket handkerchief, whereim the
letters I. Y. were marked with a needle. A stranger
woman, wearing a dark red -cicak, was observed
to sit from eight till ten o'clock near the place on
! the same morning, and is believed to have been
delivered of this child ; but the Coroner's jury
conceiving that the child might have been born
dead, and that they had no satisfadory evidence
reative to its death, returned their verdict accord.