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CORNWALL ASSIZES.

INTERESTING CASE.

DOE ER DEM. SYMONS AND OTHERS V. TUCKER AND

OTHERS.

This was an action for the recovery of an estate in Cornwall,
called Hatt, of the yearly value of at least 12001. at present in
the possession of the Symons family, who has held it for the
last 18 years. In 1766, Mr. Symons, grandfather of the pre-
sent claimant, died, leaving his property in tail, and also four
children, William Symons, Nicholas Symons, father of the pre-
sent claimant, and two daughters. William Symons succeeded
his father, and enjoyed the property till the period of his de-
cease. Nicholas Symons, the second son, was placed as an ap-
prentice with Mr. Rashleigh, solicitor, of St. Austle. There
he formed an attachment for a girl beneath his situation and
prospects in life; and therefore the attachment was discouraged
by his friends. In 1782, about the latter part of the year, he
went to London, to be admitted as an attorney. The dissent
of his friends to his fond attachment weighed heavily on
lus mind ; and about December, Mr. RaShleigh received a let-
ter from him, stating how much that circumstance affected him,
that he was the most miserable of men ; that in consequence of
his conduct, be-could not think of what had been once proposed
(that of entering into partnership with Mr. Rashleigh) ; and
that he feared he should never make up his mind to return to
Cornwall again. He intimated that he would write to Mr. R.
again in a week or ten days ; but from that week he disappeared,
and nothing more had been heard of him until the
.prgsent time.
Now it happened that about that time a person, quite a stranger,
appeared at Liverpool, answering in every respect to the sta-
ture, complexion, &c. of this Symons; and there he continued to
drive a hackney or stage coach,under the name of Nat. Sherwood,
until the day of his death, which happened in 1802, when he
was accidentally drowned in the ferry-boat while crossing the
river Mersey. This Sherwood married in Liverpool ; and
William Sherwood otherwise Symons, the present claimant, is
his eldest son. The Learned Counsel (Mr. Adam) said he
would prove the identity of this Nathaniel Sherwood, and would
produce witnesses from Liverpool to swear to the height, ap-
pearance, &c. of Nicholas Symons : he would also produce
Cornish witnesses to prove that of Symons, which would be
found to be the same ; and would then prove the hand-writing
of Sherwood and Symonds to be that of the same iden-
tical person. After the death of this Nathaniel Sherwood
there were found, in a trunk belonging to the said Nathaniel
Sherwood, two certificates of admission to practise as an At-
torney, under the name of Nicholas Symons, of St. Austle,
gentleman. Some other papers were also found, being ac-
counts between Symons and his mother, and which witnesses
would prove to have been written by the same. He would
prove also that plaintiff's children were called by the same
name as that of Nicholis Symons's family, and that he
held his birth-day on the same day. If after this prov-
ing the extraordinary disappearance of one man, and
the strange appearance of the other, after proving the
likeness of the two men, after proving in a positive manner
the writing to be the same, proving those certificates of this-N.
Symons to be found in the chest of Nathaniel Sherwood,---to
what conclusion must they lead, but that Sherwood and Sy-
mons are the same man ; and by consequence that the plaintiff,
Wm. Sherwood, is the son of this Nicholas Symons, and en-
titled to the estate ? Mr, Adams then substantiated by evi-
dence the facts of his case : and the Jury returned a Verdict
for the Plaintiff; thus establishing the right of the son to the
estate of the unfortunate father, and raising him from poverty
to comparative affluence.