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London, England, 1829-04-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE:

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Ares 27.

400,11 V. lIILVDRIT.
*bitwas an action by a carpenter to recover from a
builder the sum of 121. for esti& work in some houses
which the plaintiff had contracted to finish for 321. The
qiiedion was, whether the work now charged was in.
chided in the contract?
• The Jury found a verdict for the• plaintiff.—Da.
wages Bs.

arce v. nutrias.
This was an action for a trespass committed by the
defendant in the house of the plaintiff.
Sir J. SCARLSTT stated the case of the plaintiff. He
was a dairyman in humble circumstances, who was in.
debit(' to the defendant, ti=e well-known cowkeeper at
Islington. Mr. It•iodes called upon the plaintiff for
some money, and the plaintiff not Ending it convenient
to dischare the whole claim immediately,'offered him
a part of the demand, which he refused, and seized the
whale of the plaintiff's money.
Lydia James said she saw her husband pay 311. to
plaintiff. on the 14th of April last year—was at Rice's
next day, when Rhodes came and asked for Rice—
R•rdes, Rice and his wife, went up stairs; heard a
noise soon after, and Rhodes saying. e• have both the
money and the keys." Mr. Rice came out and locked
Rh 'des in. but Rhodes broke open the door and got away.
Cross-examined by Mr. PLATT—Her husband
b-twhf. the milk-walk of Rice for 401. Rice had told
her that he gave 601. for it to Rhodes; but said that the
later gave him liberty to sell it for what he could.
Sophia Reece was servant to Rice—Her master put
the money that he received from Jones in a handker-
chief in a drawer. When Rhodes came he waited tin
her master came home; and then asked if he was not to
have some money ? her master told his wife to give the
gentleman 101. her mistress unlocked the drawer and •
took out 101. Rhodes said he would have it all. Her
Mistress locked the money up again, but Rhodes
snatiched the bunch of keys and took out the handker-
chief from the chewer.- The money fell on the floor,
and Rhodes pushed her master over the table and be
gan to pick it up; witness went nut of the room, and
her master also, who locked the door, and called out for
somebody to fetch a constable; but Rhodes broke out
of the room and went away. There was no money left
when witness returned into the room, and her mistress
was obliged to borrow sixpence to buy some bread.
Mr. PLATT addressed the Jury for the defendant. and
contended that there was no satisfactory proof that there
was so much money in the handkerchief as stated, and
complained of the plaintiff's having sold the milk-walk,
and kept the money without paying the defendant for
it. It was admitted that the plaintiff was indebted to the
defendant; and yet, if the Jury gave a verdict for the
plaintiff, the latter might take him in execution for the
damages. without paying what he himself owed.
Lord TRNTRIDIN summed up. The defendant had
no right to pay himself.
Verdict for plaintiff—Damages 311.
Doer ON DRUM or MORRISON v. zones.

This was an action of ejectment to recover possession
of a piece of ground, occupied by the defendant at the
gest end of what was formerly the Crost Keys public-
bettlie, in St. Anne.street. Westminster.
It appeared that in 1769, a peisen named Morriion
was owner of the houses called Morrison 's-court, lead-
‘fig into St. Anne's-lane, Westminiter, and also certain
premises leading through a garden to Great Peter-
street. This property was devised to the lesser of the
• plaintiff, and the present action was founded upon tlii
aarertion, that the parties had been deprived of their
land by tli encroachment of the defendant. The Crose
Keys had been pulled down and rebuilt, and the ques-
tion was, whether it bad been carried farther east than
it Originally stood, so as to exclude the ground or pas
she claimed by the plaintiff ?—A number a witnesses
were enamiced. One old man, eighty years of age,
described in a Clear and forcible manner the existence
Of the passage claimed by the plaintiff. On the pari of
the 'jendant, it was said no encroachment
. Ltd been
At ; theJuri, undei all the circumstances, found
..'" ict for the plaintiff—damages one shilling—
t yeitablisbing the right of the parties to the ground


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Wednesday night a grantonend.atiacioos itiory was
ihntislitihd op part of the lands of Richatdaiewnibarofy of Attlee;
enmity of linnit. the property of Giorgi /mitt, Eigi.‘4sy
news .Ittodred perches of ditches, and carrying nff the posts and
pegs of, the larny—Dnigkede Airiest.
•
• Sattitdat evening a lad was sent by his employer, a
skin Messer, in St. Luke's, with a quantity of sables, of
die ilia of upwards one, hundred pounds, to the shop
6/ tar. 1:01. rush. terrier. inliewgste-stzeet. On his way
he was overtaken by a genteel yoetb, ieblach, who
tnid him his master hid given him the *tens parcel of
skins by mistake. They Were fht Mi. White, in the
C4y4oad. and Nadi be siege up. to IsUss and bathe
lad) stria direcil go back boy the rightyucel. Ned-
Way enoogh ibe boy dessredA and gave
op the bundle; and bit !eat:riding to his Minger'i house.
as may be soppriiad, it was sicertairied diiii 6a bad been
the dupe of sottsr7lartfol t whe sing filie been
entire of the contents of his