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u o'clock on the 131. December, 1825, when the firm
..).)kepped piy.ment.Nle was unable to state how it got
knid - •- Into thkhastcNof
.Hodges and Co. but those Gentlemen,
• • appEbrea 'Ore been in the habit of raising funds to
keep up the credit of Sykts's house. On the 10th of
January following the bankers at Charing-crossstlis-,
counted the bill far Hodges in, the regular way, and it
became a question fur tbe tentideration of his Lordship,
whether they were bona yde holders entitled to sustain
an action upon the bill. Mr. Home drew an inference,
that Cox and Co. had lent themselves to Hodges and
Co. for the purpose of recovering the bill, and there-
fore claimed the injunction to restrain them from pro.
ceeding at law.
The Loon CHANCELLOR considered the circumstances
of the case complicated and suspicious. He thought a
court of law the best tribunal for the decision of the
question, whether Hodges had come fairly into the pos-
session of the bill, and postponed further hearing of the
motion until to-morrow, for the purpose of giving coun-
sel an opportunity to consult their clients on the ques-
tion, whether they would prefer the trial of the action,
or have an issue directed.

OLASSINGION V. THWA 'TES.

Mr. ROUPELL said that; in obedience to his Lord-
ship's wishes, as he bad expressed himself on Saturday,
all the passages in the bill which related to the plain-
tiff's claim for discovery against Mr. Phillips had been
marked. He believed that they would show clearly that
the plaintiff had a right to have Mr. Phillip's answer,
as it was called, taken off ,he file, cn the ground of its
being no answer at all. The Counsel then proceeded
to read the passages to which he alluded, when he was
inter r opted by
The Loan CHANCELLOR, who said he thought he
should best be able to get through this most extraor-
dinary case by reading the papers. He must say that he
had never, in the whole course of his experience, met
with a case like the present. It was certainly true, that
under certain circumstances a disclaimet might be
rightly called an answer; such, for example, as that in
which the party disclaimed an interest which the pliin-
tiff charged him to insist on. But even this was only an
answer to that part of the bill which so charged him.
He remembered an attarney of the old school, whom
some of the bar would also recollect, and who had done
him the honour to intrust many briefs to him. That
Gentleman never inserted a word toe much in his briefs,
which seldom exceeded three sheets in length, whatever
might be the nature of the case ; but he invariably pre.
faced them with an observation (which might apply to
the matter before him), that " the• case was so a xtraor-
dinary that there was nothing to be found like it even in
Viner's Abiidgments, though that work consisted of
twenty six folio volumes." The case now under discus
sioa was not less extraordinary than those of his old
dies*: and he wished to be understood that there might
be cases in which, though some of the parties bad no
interest whatever, they were deeply accountable. •
Mr. Aeas complained pfritthe practise of publisislog whassver
was said in Court respecting this ease tended to prejudice his Alm
The Low) Csissmisheil said be could not help it;
the newspapers would put is whatever happened, whs.
than it was fit to do so or not. He would not have the
passages in the bill lead DCSW for the amusement of the
e4ors present, and to the waste of the time of tIW
rt, iss order that matetials might be furnished for
the newspapers. The papers were handed to his Lordship
with the passages masked.
THE EVENIN

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