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London, England, 1802-08-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

PALACE COURT, FRIDAY, AUG. sy.
RIFORR MR. StRIPANT MARSHALL.
HAMILTON v. FUCA., SION.—MT. LOCK SILT Rat-
ed, that the plaintiff, Count Piper Hamilton, was
a perfon in the Medical profeffion, and, however
the name of Count Piper might excite a Emile, he
had been regularly bred to the praftice of phyfic.
The declaration Rated, that he was poffeffed of a
houfe, at No. s 3, Great Charlottalreet, in the
month of January Sall, and that the defendant
had, on the 23th of March following, taken his
Erik floor, with a garret, and the joint occupation
of two kitchens and an area; that the defendant,
contriving to injure the plaintiff, had excluded
him from the joint polTeflion of the front kitchen
and area, in which was a water-tub. The plain-
tiff, in confequence of fuch exclulion, had been
deprived of the enjoyment of fo neceffary an arti-
cle as that of water. This cafe he fhould prove
by a refpeCiable witnefs.
Mifs Mary Hamilton, the plaintiff's filler, faid,
the defendant had agreed from the beginning, to
have only the joint tenantcy of the two kitchens;
that there was a einem in the back kitchen, but it
never conttined any water ; that there were two
keys to the front area, that the defendant's (errant
borrowed her brother's, and never returned it ;
that the defendant had then denied his fervants
accefs to the kitchen and area, and that they bad
ever lime been obliged to borrow water from their
neighbours.
Mr. AGAR Rated the cafe on the part of the de-
fendant with a conliderable degree of wit and hu-
mour. His Learned Friend, be (aid, in his de-
fcription of Doane Count Piper, bad employed no
incoofiderable (bare of fancy and cenbellithment ;
he bad reprefented him as having diplomas from
all the learned Univerfities in Europe; the jury
eould not but fuppofe he had been educated at
Paris, at F.dinburgh, or at Leyden, or Come other
Celebrated place, devoted to Medical Scienceo—
No 'fuch thing---bis own handbill, in which be
announced his having afflicted the healing art,
Rated, that after ten years travels, throughout
everT part of Afia and Africa, he had returned
to lus own country to cure every dikter that
man or woman could polfibly be silliaed with I
his Rudies among the Hottentots had enlarged his
mind, and capacitated him for aff'ord'ing relief in
all complaints, from a common corn on the toe
to the lab Rages of the moll mortal dißeenpers.
The defendant, a Gentleman, whoa literary ac-
quirements obtained him a genteel livelihood, bad
-taken the Dooflor's fire floor, at tba rent of 431. a
year, unfurnifbed ; he was to have not a joint te-
uantcy in the two kitchens, but the eaclufive right
to the front one, with the area. He took ak
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a rerpedable profeeor, and net a man felling quack
medicines. The defendant found it neceffary to
avoid all communication with loch a chartaer,
and had accordingly excluded him from every
part of his premiks, and, among the reft, the front
kitchen and area. In confequence of this the plain-
tiff had done every thing in his power to annoy
the defendant and his wife. In the &It place, it
11 was his uniform prailice to infult every perfon who
called upon the defendant.
Several witneffes betides the defendant's fer.
'rant proved, in the moft diaina manner, that the
Dolor
had plenty of water in his own back kit-
chen till he cut it off with a view to this fait; that
from the firfl few days after Mr. and Mrs. Fer.
guffon took paffeffion of the lodgbig, they pofi.
Lively objeeted to the Count or his filler entering
the front kitchea, and threatened even to difcard,
their own fervant if the either entered the Dolor's)
kitchen, or fuffered him to interfere with theirs.
The fervant, who was Rated to have borrowed the
area key was confronted with Mifs Hamilton, and
exprefsly denied the alfertion.
The Judge, after hearing the defendant's wit.
neffes, raid, there could not be the flighteft pretence
for Paying there was any thing like a joint-tenancy
in the front kitchen and area.

The Jury &id, they had been fnr fame time of
the Came opinion, and they immediately returned
a verdia for the defendant.

The defendant had, on the recommendation of
the Judge, offered to withdraw a j
uror; but the
Count refilled to affent to it. The Judge expreffed
his fatisfAainn at his obffinacy being punithed by
the payment of coils.