The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-07 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

:Sittings at Nisi_Prius before Lord Chief Baron Pollock,
and a special Jury.)
HITCH V. LEWIS, &C.

The Clork of the Court informed the Jury that the Lord
Chief Baron was too ill to attend Court to-day, and that
the case of Hatch v. Lewis, &c., was postponed till
Thursday, the 9th of May next.

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SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)
SINGULAR PLEA OF THE STATUTE OP LIHHITATIONS--

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WALKER V. MEEK.

This was an action to recover a sum of £l5, the value of
a silver watch, delivered to defendant, who had pleaded the
statute of limitations.

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Mr. Russell (instructed by Messrs. Clarke and Erle, of
Bedford-row) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Waugh
for the defendant.
Mr. Russell stated that in 1854 defendant brought a little
gold watch into plaintiff's shop to be repaired. While this
little gold watch was undergoing repair defendant expressed
a wish to have one .to wear, and so plaintiff lent him a
patent eight day silver watch, valued at £l5. Time
went on, but defendant never sent for his watch, and in
February, last year, he again called and bought another
watch. Plaintiff said, "Oh I Captain Meek, you have
never returned me the silver watch." Defendant replied,
" Yes, I have. I sent the servant with it, and he brought
back mine." Plaintiff said, " that could not be, as I have
your watch new," Explanations ensued, and finally defen-
dant promised to pay the amount. He (Mr. Russell) was
of opinion that the statute would not apply in such a case.
Plaintiff was called, and fully bore out the case, as stated
by the learned counsel.
He was cross-examined as to the value of the little gold
watch left.

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This watch was produced, and was about the size of a
shilling.
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Plaintiff was of opinion that such a watch would sell for
about £7. Did not believe it was purchased for 34 francs.
Was certain the silver watch was lent to defendant.
For the defence, Mr. Waugh contended that, so long as
the plaintiff had defendant's watch, he could not sue in
delinue for his own, and that the statute would apply.
His Honour held that there was sufficient evidence o
detention and conversion.
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r. Waugh then urged that a tradesman was not justi-
fied in lending such a valuable watch in exchange for one
worth so little as the one left to be repaired.
His Honour, in finding for the plaintiff for the full
amount with costs, thought he should feel very indignant
if a watchmaker refused to lend him a watch worth 115
while his own was undergoing repair.

:POLICE IN7 ELLIfiENCE—( This Day).

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SETTLING ACCOUNTS IVITII A LANDLORD.—Thomas
Saunders, goldsmith, of 38, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-
square, was charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with committing
an unprovoked assault on Mr. Charles Manley, goldsmith,
of 38, Cleveland-street.

,ANKS.

The complainant said the defendant had been a lodger,
but in consequence of his requiring his apartments he gave
him notice to quit, since which time he had greatly annoyed
him in :his business—slamming the door with such
violence as not only to knock the articles off his shop shelf,
but also off the shelves of a neighbour—grimacing at him
through the shop- window, &c. On the previous evening,
returning huinu, the prisoner stepped out of the shop into
the street, a mob of persons being collected round
the door, and said —" I have been settling
accounts inside, and now I'll settle them with
you, you -reptile," and struck him a violent blow
on the mouth, cutting him, and smothering him with
blood. He then gave the prisoner, who had his goods in a
van, into custody.
The case being fully proved, the defendant was fined 20s.
or 14 days.
THE WEST-END BEGGING NUISANCE.—SeveraI well-

known beggars were this morning brought before Mr.
Tyrwhitt, charged with annoying the members of the
different clubs by bogging—the number during the past few
days being greatly increased, as usual at the commence-
ment of the Parliamentary session. The cases were dis-
posed of according to the nature of them.

THAMES.
STEALING A FOWL.—A boy named Henry Walker,
about 17 years of age, was brought before Mr. Selfe,
charged with stealing a fowl in the Coborn-road, Mile-end.
The prisoner and another boy were seen this morning
throwing some barley to fowls in the Coborn-road, and the
prisoner's companion Pnatched up a fowl, gave it to the
prisoner, and he put it in a bag and ran away with it. A
young man named George Wilson, the son of the owner of
the fowl, immediately pursued the prisoner, who ran some
distance, and finding 4imself closely pursued let the fowl
out of the bag and quickened his pace. He was soon
overtaken and secured.

Please you, my lord, said the prisoner, a boy gave me
the fowl and told me to carry it.

Mr. Selfe asked the prisoner whether his companion
could not carry the fowl himself, to which he made no
answer.

The owner of the fowl said he had lost a great many of
a similar description.
Mr. Selfe said he did not wonder at that. How could it
be otherwise, when fowls were sent into the roads and
streets of the metropolis with no one to look after them.
He sentenced the prisoner to ten days' hard labour in the
Nouse of Correction.