The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-08 00:00:00

BAIL COURT.

(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice Shoe and a
Common Jury.)
LYONS P. DENECKSCUESL

This was an action by the plaintiff, a jeweller, to recover
a sum of £l3O for alleged breach of contract by the defen-
dant, a barrister, residing at Whitechapal.
Mr. Telford Sallis was counsel for the plaintiff, and tho
defendant appeared in person.
The evidence for the plaintiff was to the effect that he
held an unexpired lease of a house, No. 199, Strand. The
defendant, becoming desirous of possessing the premises,
entered into treaty-with the plaintiff, which ultimately
ended in the defendant signing an agreement to take the
plaintiff's interest in the'lease fora sum of £l3O, on the Bth
of February last. Afterwards the defendant, not approving
of his bargain, refused to fulfil his contract, on the ground
that he had not been furnished with an abstract of the title
of the original lesso , dated sixty years ago, and that the
latter had not promi id to renew his lease at the expiration
of the six years, though he did not refuse to do so. It was
contended that the plaintiff was only required by law to
give an abstract of his own title as sub-less'or, ttnd that he
never led the plaintiff to believe that the original lessor had
promised positively to renew the lease of the premises in
the event of obtaining an eligible tenant.
The question turned principally on points of law, and the
jury found a verdict for £27 damages.
The court granted both parties leave to move.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.
(Before tho Recorder and a Common Jury.)
POWER AND ANOTHER V. ZINGLER. _

This was an action to recover losses on a certain trans-
action in shares in the Standard Bank of Africa, Mr.
Henry James appearing for the plaintiffs, who are a firm of
stockbrokers; Mr. Kemp representing defendant.
Mr. James having briefly opened the case, called Mr.
Davis, one of the plaintiff; who said that in May of the
present year defendant called upon witness and instructed
him to sell twenty shares in the Standard Bank of Africa
for the account at £9 per share. Witness sold on the
30th of May at £9 per share, and they would have
to be delivered about the middle of Juno. When
the time came for the delivery of the shares defendant was
not in a position to deliver, and witness was compelled to
purchase shares at £l5 per share in order to hand them
over to the purchaser. By the custom of the Stock Ex-
change plaintiffs were personally liable for the difference.
In cross-examination, witness said that he did not know
defendant could not deliver the shares, because they did
not stand in his name, until after the day for the delivery
of the shares had been passed. Defendant requested plain-
tiffs to buy back the shares at £lO loss, but this could not
be done.

Mr. Kemp admitted that plaintiffs had been ordered to
sell, but said he should sho w that the plaintiffs had abso-
lute orders to re-purchase the shares without limit, and it
was his duty to have done so without holding them over
and incurring all the loss that had ensued.
Defendant was called, and admitted having authorised
the plaintiffs to sell the shares, but there was a difficulty
in the way of a transfer, as the holder of the shares had not
paid the call. A conversation took
place between defendant
and Mr. Davis, and defendant desired Mr. Davis to re-
purchase the shares as speedily as possible. He never
authorised the plaintiffs to hold over the shares.

Cross-examined—Defendant never put any limit on the
loss of re-purchase, nor did he ever mention the sum of £lO
as the limit of the loss.

Mr. James then read a letter, which had been written
by defendant to plaintiff, to the effect that the shares were
to be " bought back under £10."
His Lordship said that was clearly limiting the plaintiffs
to buy back at under £lO.
Mr. James then produced a note from the plaintiffs, in
which they had called the attention of the defendant to the
fact that they had been unable to re-purchase at his limit,
and defendant said he had made no written reply to that
letter, but had seen Mr. Davis personally.
His lordship said it was clear thero had been a limit, and
Mr. Kemp, on the part of his client, consented to a verdict.
The jury then found a verdict for the plaintiff for £l2l.
Verdict for the plaintiff for the fidi amount claimed.

LORD ELCHO AND THE CODIMITTEE ON MASTERS
AND WORKMEN.—A few days since Lord Elcho paid a visit
to Glasgow. The principal object in view was to have a
meeting with the committee on the law regarding masters
and weikmen, in order to have their views on the report of
the select committee of the House of Commons on the sub-
ject, his lordship having taken a very deep interest in that
mportant matter.

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest
was held in Newmarket a few days ago on the body
of Edward Simpson, 75 years of age. On Thursday last de-
ceased and a man named Mathews were engaged in carting
straw, and had occasion to pass through a street across
which a linen-line was stretched. Mathews, who was in
front of the horse, saw the line, and lifted the prop up,
calling out to deceased, who was riding on the straw, "Look
out, Ted." He afterwards heard deceased fall, and found
that the line had pulled him off the load. He was insensible
when picked up, being much injured at the back of the
head, and he died the same evening.. Deceased had been
under the same line two or three times before the smite day
and Mrs. Clarke, the wife of a journeyman baker, who hung
it across the street, deposed that she saw deceased pass
under the line soon after dinner, and offered to take it down,
but he replied, "No, there's plenty of room for me." She
did not see him pass later in the afternoon when the acci-
dent occurred. She had been in the habit of hanging the
line across tho street to dry clothes on for seven years past,
and all her neighbours did the same, but she had never
heard any complaint. Verdict—" Accidentally killed."
REPRESENTATION OF DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.—On
Tuesday Mr H. E. Chatterton issued an address as candi-
date for the representation of Dublin University in Parlia-
ment, in the room of Mr. Walsh, late Attorney-General for
Ireland, and now holding the office of Master of the Rolls.
Mr. Chatterton is a Conservative, and a staunch supporter
of the Church. He was a candidate a few months ago on a
vacancy being caused by the appointment of Mr. White-
side as Lord Chief Justice of the Irish Queen's Bench, but
retired in favour of Mr. Walsh.

Lord Killeen has left the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-
park-corner, for Ireland•