The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-12 00:00:00

S6l, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1860.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TBIS DAY).

ROLLS COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls Sir John Romilly).
JUDGMENT.-IVEBB V. ENGLAND.
His Honour, the Master of the Rolls, in delivering judg-
ment, said—This is the case of a bill brought by the appren-
tice against a gentleman with whom he was apprenticed,
for the purpose of obtaining a cancellation of the inden-
ture ; and also for the purpose of obtaining a return, or a
partial return of the premium or deposit paid to him. The
bill goes on to pray in the alternative that if the court
could not do so it would specifically enforce the con-
tract. His Honour, on considering the facts of_the case,
came to the conclusion that he could not grant the
relief asked by the bill; that adequate relief could be ob-
tained in a court of law in an action of damages for breach
of contract. This court cannot compel the apprentice to
learn or the master to teach the apprentice or to deliver up
the indenture to be cancelled unless obtained by fraud
or declared void by a court of law, and then it becomes of
no more value than a piece of waste paper. The Lord
Mayor or the Justices of the Peace are empowered by Act.
of Parliament to enforce specific performance of contracts
of indenture. His Honour dismissed the bill without costs.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
APPIA.L-JUDGIVISXT-TIIE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK'

Y. IT ItN .

This was an appeal from a decision of 'Vice-Chancellor
Wood dismissing the plaintiff's bill.

The plaintiff claimed a right as owner on a transfer to
several mercantile ships—the transfer to which was not
regularly entered in the ship's registet in terms of the Act
of Parliament.

The Lord Chanceller in delivering judgment said, on
account of the great importance of this oase to the com-
mercial interests of the community, I lave very deliberately
considered the existing statutes and the arguments to which
my attention has been directed, and I am of opinion that
the decision of the Vice-Chancellormust be affirmed. I
entirely concur in all the reasons whic4 the Vice-Chancellor
has given, and which he has stated sc very ably and at very
great length, and with much propriety, and which appears
to me entirely to exhaust the subject, His lordship referred
to the statute 17 and 18 Viet., cap. 104, with respect to the
transfer of mortgages, and particularly to the 55th section,
which declares all transfer of mortgages not found in the
register null and void. The register discloses the names
of the true owner, and the statute nullifies the title if the
title shows a different set of owners from the register.
His lordship affirmed the decision of the Vice-Chancellor,
and dismissed the appeal with costs.

SHERIFFS' COURT.

ACTION FOR RECOVERY OP STOLEN FROPETY:-WOOD V.

AVASSELL.

This was an action in trover, to recover £lB damage for
tke wrongful detention of a gold chain, the property of
'
Mr. Wontner for his client, said, the plaintiff was a widow,
and his honour would remember that in May last a robbery
was committed by a young man who passed himself
off as the son of Alderman Rose. This young man
was convicted at the Middlesex " Sessions, having
pleaded guilty. Sentence being deferred, the pri-
soner (an imposter) confessed that he pledged the
property valued at £BO with a pawnbroker in Lisson-grove.
Thence it was traced to Debenham and Storr. It was sold
by auction, and the chain in question now was discovered
by Mrs. Wood in the shopwindow of defendant, he being a
jeweller in Fenchurch-street. He refused to deliver up the
property, hence the present action.
Mrs. Annie Wood having been called, deposed to the
above facts, and was cross-examined by Mr. 0. B. C.
Harrison for the defendant :—Met the young man at an
evening party. He was introduced to me as a son of Alder-
man Rose. He saw me home. Called the neat day. I
had known him three months when he committed the rob-
bery. He used to call every day. He had never bean in
my bedroom before the day of the robbery to my know-
ledge. We were very friendly. Don't put any stress on
the word "very." My brothers and sisters live with me.
It was discovered at the Middlesex Sessions that.the pri-
soner was a convicted thief.

Mr.Wontner then tendered the evidence of the convicti9n,
but Mr. Hanson admitted it.

Mr. Hanson then said his client was a highly respectable
jeweller, and had purchased the gold chain in question in
Market-court over the counter.

Mr. Wontuer called the attention of the court to the case
of Scattergood and Sylvester, in 19 " Law Journal."
His Honour, upon reading the case, said the decision
there was as he had anticipated. Upon conviction of the

thief the property reverts to the owner.
Mr. Hanson urged that such a rule of law gave great
opportunity for collusion between the thief and the owner
of the property. Here was a case in which defendant had
bought goods openly, and if he was obliged to give up the
chain it would be a great injustice. His Honour would
remember that no evidence had been given at the trial, and
that the prisoner pleaded guilty.
His Honour said, upon looking at the case, he was bound
to find for the plaintiff.
Mr. Harrison was anxious that his Honour should grant
a case, inorder that the decision in Scattergood and Sylvester
should be reversed, it being manifestly an• injustice to the
public.
Mr. Wontner objected, and the defendant gave up the
chain, which was accepted, and a verdict passed for costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE--(7711S DAY

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF ASSAULT AT AN OYSTER ROOM
—Thomas Slea, a well-dressed young man, described as a
tailor, was charged before Mr. Beadon with assaulting
Eliza Cooper, of 11, Sheldon-street, Paddington.
The complainant said she met the prisoner in Oxford-
street about one that morning, having been out that day
to see some friends at Richmond, and he asked her to go
and take some refreshment with him, and she did so, going
to No. 250, Oxford-street, near the Marble Arch. After
being in the room some time he threw her on the sofa, and
took some money out of his pocket, with which he struck
her over the nose, .smothering her face with blood. She
called out, and the waiter came to her assistance, and
pulled him from her, and he then struck the waiter and
tried to get away, but the landlord stopped him.
Benjamin John Bannister said he was shopman, and
" waiter when required," at 250, Oxford-street, refresh-
ment-rooms, and about one that morning the prosecutrix
and the prisoner entered the house and were served with
provisions. The prisoner sent him for some porter, and
when he went into the room with it he found the prisoner
trying to "take an advantage" of the "lady," and saw him
strike her over the nose, having at the time several coins in
his hand. He took him by the collar and pulled him off,
when the prisoner brandished his walking stick and pushed
him down.
By the Chief Clerk—The place is a refreshment and
oyster• room. The room the prisoner and the prosecutor
were in is a private room. The room is paid for as well as
the refreshments.
Mr. Beadon asked the witness whether ladies and gentle-
men were in the habit of going to it ?
The witness said it was respectable, and he never saw
anything wrong before.
Prisoner said the prosecutrix had his watch in har hand,
and wanted money.
The witness said the prisoner struck the prosecutrix

severely, and made no remark about his watch. The pri-
soner had a bottle in his pocket, which he threw away on
getting outside, but he did not know there was anything
wrong in it.
Lazarus Howes, 95 C, said the prisoner told him she
tried to take the watch, and he struok her.
The waiter said he had seen the lady at the oyster room
several times.
Mr. Beadon said it was clear the female had received a
severe blow. Supposing she had taken the watch, he (pri-
soner) could have called for the waiter.
Howes said the prosocutrix was bleeding, and they had
both been drinking.
The waiter said prisoner had a handful of coins when he
went into the room, and his watch was all right.
Mr. Beadonfined the prisoner 40s. or a month, the assault
being inflicted in a very dangerous place, between the pro-
secutrix's eyes.