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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT—Guildford, August G.
TODD AND ANOTHER V. ERMA'.
This cause was disposed of on Thursday, before Lord
Abinger and a Common Jury, the circumstances con-
nected with it being of rather a singular character. The
plaintiffs are wine merchants in London, and the defend-
ant was one of the managing committee of the Alliance
Club, which was dissolved two or three years ago ; and
the action was brought to recover a sum of 1941. due for
wine furnished to the Club, from the defendant, as one
of the committee. The case has been tried three times
before, and on each occasion the plaintiff obtained a ver-
dict. Upon the last trial a gentleman named Stuart, a
barrister, who had been a member of the Club, was pro-
duced as a witness by the plaintiffs,.and upon an'objec•
tion to the admissibility of his testimony by Mr. The.
siger, for the defendant, on the ground of his being an
interested party, the plaintiffs' solicitor handed him a
release. Mr. Thesiger, upon this claimed a right to put
a plea to this effeet upon the record, but the Learned
Judge who tried the case thought it was not competent
for him to do so, and the trial went on, and ended again
in a verdict for the plaintiffs. An application upon this
was made for a new trial, when the Court held that leave
should have been given to place the plea upon the record,
• and a new trial was therefore granted, which now came
on for hearing.
Mr. Thesiger was for the defendant, and Mr. Platt

for the plaintiff
Mr. THESIGER, for the defendant, explained the cir-
cumstances above detailed to the Jury, and said that it
would be now for him to prove the plea that a release
had been granted to Mr. Stuart. lle .said he should
have to call Mr. Stuart, who, as they might imagine, was
not a very friendly witness; but still he trusted he should
he able to make out the plea to their satisfaction.
Mr. C. Stuart was then. called.—lTe deposed that he
was a barrister, and resided in Paper-buildings, Temple.
Lle remembered being called as a witness, and that a
release from liability as a member of the Club was given
to him by the plaintiff's attorney.
Mr. TitEsIGER--What has become of that release ?
Witness—l tore off the seals and cancelled it, and it is
not now in my possession.
Lord ARINGER—Had you any communication with
the plaintiffs' attorney before you cancelled the release ?
Witness—l had, but that was not the reason I cancelled
it ; I had intended to cancel it.
Lord ABINGER—Were you aware at the time yon so
cancelled it, that there was a plea upon the record in-
volving the question as to the existence of this release,
and that it would be material evidence in reference to
that plea ? Witness—l was aware of that circumstance.
Lord ABINGER—WeII, I think if I had been a profes-
sional man, and knew that the document in my posses-
sion was material evidence in reference to a pica upon a
pending action, I should not have cancelled the
docuinent.
Mr. PLATT expressed his opinion that the proceeding
was warranted by the course adopted by the defendant to
defeat the plaintiffs' just claim.
Mr. THEsroEn applied to have the facts taken upon his
Lordship's note, in order that an application might be
made to the Court above upon the subject.
Lord ABINGER said he should state upon his note
that it appeared that the release could not be proved.
inasmuch as it appeared that the document had been
cancelled for the purpose of defecting the defendant's
plea. The Learned Judge again said, that if he had
been a professional man placed in such a position, he
should most certainly not have taken such a step as to
conceal a document which he knew was made the sub-
ject of special plea in a pending action.
Mr. PLATT.—My Lord, I think I should have done
the same thing under the circumstances, and considering
the endeavours that have been made to defeat the claim
of the plaintiffi.
Mr. THESIGER.—Permit me then to say that I should

not.
A verdict for the plaintiff for 194/. was then returned,
the defen.iant's Counsel having liberty to apply to the
Court for a new trial, or in any other shape that might
be warranted upon the particular facts that had been

woved.

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POLIcE
SATURDAYINTELLIGENCE.
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office of the notary, where it was left to take it up, and
was counting out the money, when he (Mr. Gouger) en-
tered. He saw the acceptor offer the notary's clerk two
51. notes, 451. in sovereigns, and the rest in silver. The
notary's clerk then began to weigh the sovereigns in one
of the cheap common weighing maehines which were not
recegnised by the Mint, and refused to take any but those
which plumped down the machine. The consequence
was, that two-thirds of the sovereigns were declared by
the clerk not to be of sufficient weight, and rejected.
Witness took the sovereigns to his banker, who, upon
casting his eye upon them, said it was unnecessary to
weigh them. At applicant's request, however, the sove •
reigns were weighed, and every one of the 45, with the
em!eption of three, were declared to be of full weight,
and these three were very slightly deficient.
The Lotto MAvol•---1 am very glad, Sir, that you have
come here to make the statement, and I am sure thlt the
publicity it will obtain through your instrumentality
will be of considerable advantage.
Mr. Gouger said his only object in coming t the Man-

Several other cases were proved against him.
The LORD MAYOR—Why, prisoner, you have been
very succe4,4,ol Al this sort-a we The Prisoner.—l
assure out; but the mes-
seng rsysoetin m}. Lord,
never had camepatience to wait, so the
goods lay upon my hands.
It is extraordinary enough that the prisoner was said
never in any one instance to have failed in his intention
to plunder.