The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

NISI PRIUS COURT.

TUESDAY.—CRIM. CON.: HARDING V. MIDDLE-
TON, CLERK.—The plaintiff in this case was John Har-
ding, a manufacturer, of Salford ; and the defendant was
the Rev. Thomas Middleton, of St. George's-in-the-
Fields, Manchester. The action was for criminal conver-
sation with the plaintiff's wife. A full report of the first
day's hearing appeared in our last publication, the case
of the Attorney-General, for the plaintiff, having then
closed. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins entered on Tuesday morn-
ing upon his address for the defence, and contended at
great length that there had been no proof offered, upon
which the jury could rely, either of the guilt of the defen-
dant or of the plaintiff having lost through his conduct
the affections of his wife. The witnesses called he consi-
dered to be of a very suspicious description ; and the
conduct of the plaintiff himself towards his wife had been
characterised with great cruelty. He had lived with her,
apparently on familiar terms, long after he was acquainted
with the acts on her part, which he relied upon as proofs
of her having dishonoured him ; and it was remarkable
that he had never dared to mention his suspicions to the
defendant himself. The learned sergeant, after a very
careful examination of the evidence, called confidently
upon the jury for their verdict in favour of his client. At
eleven o'clock the learned judge commenced his summing
up, which occupied an hour and a quarter, at the end of
which time the jury retired, and after an absence of a
little over an hour, returned into court and represented
to his lordship that there was no prospect of their agree-
ing to a verdict. On one of them wishing to enter into
some explanation, the learned judge refused to hear any,
and they were sent back again. At twenty minutes to six
they returned into court with a verdict for the defendant.
The learned judge expressed his surprise that they had
felt so much difficulty in arriving at that conclusion, when
it was explained that this had been owing to one party.
SLANDER—DANZIGER V. LYON.—The plaintiff in this
case is a Prussian Jew, carrying on business as a watch-
maker in this town, and the defendant is a furniture
broker and picture dealer. The cause of action was shown
to have arisen from the parties having had a squabble in a
public-house, on their return home from a sale which
they had both attended, in the course of which the defen-
dant had " chaffed" plaintiff on the subject of a fire
which had occurred on his premises. The jury returned
a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £5, with 40s. costs.
GARNETT V. POSTLETHWAITE.—IO this case a verdict
for the plaintiff was taken by consent.
LAMB V. BROOKES.—The plaintiff is a drysalter in this
town, the defendant a wire manufacturer, near Wrex-
ham' and the action was brought to recover the balance
of a debt for vitriol supplied. Verdict for the plaintiff
for £2l IS.
M'CONNELL V. MACKEY.—In this case, one of com-
plicated accounts, a verdict was taken by consent for the
plaintiff, subject to a reference.

JACKSON AND ANOTHER V. CHICHESTER.—The plain-
tiffs had recovered judgment in the court of exchequer
for £2OO, in August, 1847 ; they now called upon defen-
dant to show cause, and prayed the execution of that debt
and damages. The defendant pleaded that he was a pri-
soner in Ireland for debt; that he had petitioned the insol-
vent court ; that this particular debt was inserted in his
schedule, and that he had been discharged. The plain-
tiffs, Messrs. Jackson, are tailors, in Castle-street, in this
town, and the defendant a gentleman residing in Ireland.
After some uninteresting legal arguments, his lordship
directed a verdict for the plaintiffs, but the case, it was
understood, would be removed to a higher court.
ALLEGED BREACH OF CONTRACT.—BILBROUGH V.
CORBY.—The plaintiff, Mr. Bilbrough, was formerly a
merchant in this town, but of late years had been a timber
merchant, principally in Ireland ; the defendant, the
Right Hon. Mr. Corry, was the uncle, and, likewise, one
of the trustees of the Earl of Belmore an Irish nobleman,
now a minor ; and the object of the action was to recover
compensation of damage for breach of an agreement which
the defendant had entered into with the plaintiff, for the
sale of the thinnings of the Earl of Belmore's woods for
Railway purposes. After the case had been opened at
great length by the attorney-general, the counsel con-
sulted, with the view of agreeing to an arbitration. A
verdict was taken by consent for the plaintiff, for £l5OO,
subject to a reference.
SMITH AND OTHERS V. SKANE, ADMINISTRATRIX.—
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Verdict
balance
for
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The plaintiffs in this case were brewers, the defendant
Mrs. Skane, of the Rotunda Tavern. Waterloo-road, and
athilte accountaction a
due for brought
to recoversupplied
plaintiff'.
The court rose at half-past seven o'clock.
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8615. 3. , 9

WEDNESDAY.—Assoc
LCES.—GEORGE ROWLEY

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