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London, England, 1827-10-15 00:00:00

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WESTGATE BRIDGE.,—We are happy to state that
since our last publication• no symptoms of ribt or died
turbance hive occurred, artd that the toll has been
peaceably levied as heretofore. James
:Nelson and
James MsKenzie, the two men whose apprehensioh for
being concerned in the riots we mentioned in our last
Saturday's Journal, were on that day examined, and
being positively 'sworn to as having taken a very active
part in that violent proceeding. were fully committed
to the City Gaol to take their trial at our neat Assizes.
—Gloucester Journal.
, • • LAW. INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COM.N—TX-PLEAS, Oct. Is.
'JOHNSON V. trawarae.
Me. Sergeant Witoe, with whom was Mr. Comets',
stated that this was an issue directed by t!,e Court of
Chancery, to try a question of very gre.t importance
to the commercial world. The Legislature, in order the
more effectually to protect the fair and honest veJitor, ••
had, by the A:t of the 47th Geo. 111. proeidecl. that the
freehold estates of persons dying insolvent, and who were
traders, within the operation of the Bankrupt Laws,
.s ,ouldbe.liable to the payment of their debts ; but the
f eehold property of those who were not thus engaged
io business was not so liable. The facts of this case .
were these :—A Mr. Rome, who for many years
kept the Prince of Orange Hotel a: Gravesend, died in
1819. About three months previous to that event he
transferred the Inn to his son-in.law, the present de.
'en rant—but, as was alleged, yet kept the stables. At
t!.e time of his death he owed eonsidereble sums of
money, and upon his creditors inquiring-how they were
to get paid? they were met with the answer that the
deceased had sold the Inn to the present defendant,
who was to be allowed ten years to pay for it, ant that
the freehold property could not be touched on account
-of Rowe's having:for some time previously to his death
ceased to be a trader. The ciedithrs hereupon filed a
bill in Chancery, where, after several hearings, this
issue was ordered to try whether the deceased was a
trader at the time of his death?
John Banks knee the deceased Mr. Rowe, from 1805
to 1819, in which he died—during that time he kept the
PI ince of Orange Hotel, and bought and sold wineand
si.irits, and also hay, &c.
W. WcrAward, oseer to Mr. Rowe—Perfectly recol-
lected his leaving the inn, he was then in an Intl m state ,
of health—he me that he yet remained my master
and John's, the other ostler, as he had not given sip the . .
tables, nor should he during his life; but that if it pleased , ...*
GOD to restore his health, he intended to open a corn
chandler's shop.
4nibro.e.Everett—Made a board, by Rowe's orders.
upon which was Written " W. Rowe, Dealer in Hay&
Straw, and Corn."
Mr: Mathews, plaintiff's solicitor—With the, excep-
tion of the inn and freehold property, Rowe had only
property to the amount of about 1001.; his a,certained
:.debts were from 1.3001.143,14001.
Several other witnesses were called, who proved their .
Milling hay and straw to Rowe shortly befo.e his death.
• Mr. Sergeant TADDY, for the most part agreed with
the law as laid down by his Learned &oilier. The
principal question for the consideration of tl e Jury was,
did Rowe intend to be merely a livery stable keeper, or
did he intend to become a gem ral dealer in hay and
s•raw In the first pace, as under
.the old Bankrupt
Laws, he could not have been made a bankrupt, this
issue must be found for the defendant. Tire Learned
Sergeant contended that the evidence was altogether ie.
sufficient to prove any thing like a wholesale dealing.
lie then cal ed several witnesses, whose evidence,Was
_quite contradictory of that for the plaintiff. .
who heed opposite, 'term saw theshoir
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board; and he must have done so, had-it been
Mt. Barnett, the proprietor of the Lord Nelson hotel,
never heard of Rowe's dealing in hay and straw.
Several other witnesses gave similar testimony.
Mr. SergeantW tun having replied ; the LORD Plitt"
JUSTICE summed up, and the Jury found the issue for
the plaintiff.