The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-02 00:00:00

V BARDSWELL

This was an action brought i::3 John Henry Joyce,
commission agent, 60. Lime-street. to- recover £1 from
Mr. Charles Bardswell, attorney, Royal Bank-buildings,
for work done and for money paid, being the balance of
an account.

Joyce stated that he sought to recover this money from
Mr. Bardswell, for expenses paid out of his own pocket in
November last, whilst he was in Preston. in reference to
Mr. Ramshay's enquiry before the Erirl 'of Carlisle. The
hill he first presented to Mr. Bardswell amounted to
.£2 4s. 10.1. for railway fares and hotel expenses at Preston
whilst staying, during the trial, at the Fleece Inn. Mr.
Bardswell paid him 15s. on account, and that left a
balance in his favour of £1 9s. 10.1. ; but having had an
interview with Mr. Stone, the high bailiff of the court,
subsequently, he reduced his charge to £1 15s, the exact
sum he had paid out of pocket, and having received 153.,
the amount he now claimed, was reduced to £l. Mr.
Bardswell, he added, had since desired him to call at
different times at his office, and he would discharge the
bill. In his cross-examination hr Bardswell, the
plaintiff said he had been first requested to go to Preston
by Mr. Stone, by a letter which he had eiven up to the
defendant's clerk at Preston. He remembered no post-
script in the letter, or any intimation that Mr. Ramshay
would pay the expenses. Previously to sending for Mr.
Bardswell out of the dining-room at the Red Lion Hotel,
Preston, and receiving the 153., he had had no commu-
nication on the subject with him, but having then pre-
sented his bill, Mr. Bardswell said he was short of cash,
and then witness told him he required money to pay his
expenses back to Liverpool. and took the 15s. on account.
Mr. Bardswell stated that in November last, during the
enquiry at Preston, he was presented by Joyce with a bill
consisting of charges for three days' attendance at 103. 6d.
per day, and 63. and 7s. which the plaintiff said he had
paid out of his own pocket for expenses. He gave Joyce
155.. or a larger sum than he had advanced. He bad
nothing to do whatever with the bills of the witnesses
who attended at Preston ; they were not there on his
responsibility or at his request. He received money from
time to time from Mr. Ramshay, and he divided it and
doled it out to the several parties in the best manner he
could.

Mr. Stone, the high bailiff', and one of Mr. Inmshny's
solicitors at Preston, stated that in the letter he had for-
warded to the several witnesses relating to their attend-
ance at Preston. there was enclosed a postscript to the
effect that Mr. Ramshay would pay them their expenses.
The Judge thought Mr. Bardswell had not rendered
himself liable by anything that took place before the bill
was delivered to him; but how far he bad made himself
so by the payment of the money, could only be deter-
mined by an inspection of documents referred to in the
course of the trial. In order to afford an opportunity for
their production, he would adjourn his decision of the
case until the following (this) morning.
The other cases were unimportant.