The Sun.
London, England, 1820-07-27 00:00:00

KENT.-MAIDSTONE, JULY 26.

The Assizes for this County•commenceds here
yesterday, before
.the Lard Chief Justice AB-
BOTT, in the Nisi Prizes • Court, .acid Mr. Baron
WOOD; in the Crown Court. In the latter the
business, in point of amount, is unusually small,
the Calendar containing not more than 77 Casks.
Of these, however, several are very heinous
crimes. Besides the case of James Nesbitt for
the Woolwich murder, which is expected to be
tried on Friday, there are a child murder, two
cases of cutting and maiminp,-, two rapes, several
burglaries, seven Bank of England proSecUtions,
&c. &c. The cause list in the former contained
37 entries out of 44 venires Which had been
brought doWn.
Three brothers named Robert Wood, Samuel
Wood,. and James' Wood, were convicted of a
burrlary at Deptford, and, received sentence of
•
death.

William Rider, being indicted for uttering
forged Bank of. England notes, pleaded guilty to
the minor offence, of knowingly having forged
notes in his possession, and was sentenced to 14
years' transportation-7the prosecutors forbear-
ing to give evidence in support .of the capital
charge.

CIVIL SIDE.

DECEE..V. WOOD, EXECUT_O4 GF DE NN;

, This was ati action for money had and received
to the plaintiff's use: There were the usual money
counts.

The. plaintiff claiMed.a .balance .of 10001. being
money alleged to be due to -Mtn by the-executors
of a gentleman named Denn, who in his lifetime
resided.at.Canterhury, and was a man of consi-
-dera!ile Wealth. The plaintiff was al.so a Man of
fortune, residing at Sandwich. Ife had been paid
15001. ,liy.the—deceased on account before his
death,
and he now brought. this action for the
balance. •

The defence set up was, that the money which
the plaintiff claimed was for a gainbling debt,
won of the deceased at cards, he 'being a man, as
was suggested, of imbecile understanding.
Mrs. Demi, his NiictoW, stated these facts.' She
had paid the plaintiff 15001. as a point of honour,

nit the uteattors 'hadl refused to pay the balancell
low claimed. Under these-circumstances,
CruEF BARON directed the plaintiff to be
lonsuited:

EVANS •V. BEST.

This was an action by a linen-draper of Dover,
to-recover the amount of a bill delivered to the
amount -Of 40/. for goods supplied to the defend-
ant's viife, whilst she lived separate froth her bus-
'baud, with the plaintiff's knowledge.
The .oale and delivery of the goods in question
were ret,ularly proved. It was suggested 'in the,
opening, that the defendant, by a series of the,
most cruel acts-,- had driven his wife from his
house, and had literally turned her out of doors,'
and that the goods supplied her by the plaintiff
were necessaries suitable to her condition.

Several witnesses were called to prowe these
facts-, but, on their cross-examination, it. ap,
peared, that the defendant, a wealthy brewer at
Chatham, had married Mrs. Best, after she had
been forsome time living with him intt state of
concubinage ; that previous to that time she was
a .notorious Cyprian ; that after they were mar-
ried, they lived like cat and ',dog, and generally
fought most furiously after dinner, when both
were in a state of intoxication ; that at last Mr,s.
Best voluntarily eloped from his house, carrying
off with her a carriage load of all sorts of wearing
apparel ; she had two -dozen pairs •of new silk
stockings, two dozen pairs of new shoes, &c.
The CHIEF JUSTICE, under these circum-
stances,'and before the defendant's case was gone
into, ruled that the action would not lie. There
were, in.fact, two defences to the action. In the
,first place, Mrs. Best had voluntarily eloped ;
and, in the second, she had carried off such quan-
tities of clothing, that she could not be said to
be in want of necessaries. A tradesman, like the
plaintiff, trusts a married woman at his peril, if
he knows that .she is living separate from her
husband. If she was living with her husband,
the case would be quite different.-.—Yonsuited.