The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY—APRIL lb.
/SLAKE V. SIIILEY.

Mr. CAMPBELL—WiII your Lordship allow me
to mention the case of a prisoner brought up in
custody. It is in the case of " Blake v. Sibley."
He is brought up alias pluries for contempt in not
answering, and I am to move that he be recom-
mitted, but yesterday I understand he swore his
answer*, therefore I cannot take the order pro
confess°. He has not, however, paid the costs of his
contempt, or tendered the costs of his contempt, and
of course he must be remanded for not having paid
the costs of his contempt.
Mr. Sibley.—l put in my answer yesterday.
Mr. CAMPEELL.—ProperIy, we ought to have had
a certificate of the answer haying been filed, but
do not wish to take any advantage from that. I
therefore move that be he recommitted for the non-
payment of the costs.
LORD CHANCELLOR.—Let him be recommitted.

This, we are informed by a correspondent, he was
enabled to do through the kind offices of the Hon. Master
Eden and a fellow-prisoner. The Hon. Gentleman most
humanely attending upon the defendant i❑ custody twice,
and swearing him to his answer without a fee, and his
fellow-prisoner preparing dm answer for him, as mentioned
in a former report by you in this matter.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 15.
WHEELER V. WEST.
(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.)

Hollingworth Bramlev,y a stated, that
at the plaintiff's request he had (in September last,
he believed) made inquiries into the defendant's cir-
cumstances, and that he was informed that the de-
fendant was a very respectable young man.
Cross-examinedl won't swear that this inquiry
.was made later than the 13th of August last, (the
day the defendant became of a.7e.) The plaintiff is
frequently at Newmarket and 'Doncaster. He has
some considerable property at the former place, and
keeps the White Hart there.
Mr. BROUGHAM then commented on the plaintiff's
evidence, and Sir J. SCARLETT replied to the whole
case.

Lord TENTERDEN would call the attention of th•
Jury to the single point as to the minority of the
defendant prior to the 13th of August last, because
if they were satisfied that the bill in question was
one of these which had been accepted by the de-
fendant before he became of age, there was at once
an end to the case, as the bill was void in law. His
Lordship then shortly recapitulated the evidence as
applicable to the point alluded to, and put it to the
Jury to say, whether it was likely that the defendant
should have accepted a bill for 1,000/. subsequent
to the 13th of August, 1827, he having in the
April preceding endeavoured to get the whole of
the four acceptances out of Captain Atkinson's
hands. His Lordship was about to remark upon the
other parts of the case, when
Sir J. SCARLETT, after the observations made
by his Lordship, did not think it right to press the
case, and would, therefore, consent to be nonsuited.
A nonsuit was then entered.

SOWTER AND ANOTHER V. DUNSTAN AND ANOTHER.

This was another of those numerous actions which
have been brought within these last few months
against the Directors of one of the defunct Joint
Stock Companies formed by Mr. John Wilks, the
late Member for Sudbury, called the :iEgis Fire and
Life Insurance and Cambrian Dilapidation Company.
It was to recover the amount of the plaintiffs' hill,
amounting to upwards of 1,0001., for work done for
the Company. These
,being no defence to the
action, though Sir James Scarlett, who appeared
for the defendants, cross-examined the plaintiffs'
witnesses, a verdict was taken for the plaintiffs.—
Damage, 1,0001.

HATFIELD AND ANOTHER. V. GOLDSMIDT.

This was an action by Messrs. Hatfield, plumbers,
of Clapham, to recover the amount of their bill for
work done for the late Mr. Abraham Goldsmidt at
his house at Lark-hall-lane, Clapham. The defendant
(Mr. Adolphus Goldsmidt) was sued in his charac-
ter of executor of his late father, Mr. A. Goldsmidt.
The work done was that of making a well at the late
Mr. Goldsmith's premises.
A verdict was taken for the plainthrg, subject to a
reference as to the amount of damages.