The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

RRETIIERTON V. PALMER

In this case Joseph Bretherton was plaintiff, and John
Palmer defendant. The action was brought for the recovery
of money lent, advanced, and paid, and for stabling and
medicine supplied to the defendant's horses.
Mr. CROMPTON stated the case. The plaintiff is a
veterinary surgeon, in Liverpool, and is in the habit of re-
ceiving and stabling horses which arrive from different parts
of the country. He is also in the habit of advancing money
to his customers to enable them to make purchases of horses,
and on the sale of them afterwards he charges a guinea a
week and 5 per cent. commission. Having had dealings with
the defendant, who was a horse dealer at Northampton, and
who had horses at his establishment in the year 1839, ac-
counts were settled between them on the footing of the
charges mentioned. From the month of April to that of
June of the present year they had had considerable dealings
together, and at one period the sum of X 350 was owing by
the defendant to the plaintiff, of which he had subsequently
paid about £250. A balance of £97 4s remained due, and for
the recovery of that sum the present action was brought, he
having disputed the payment of the five per cent. commission,
upon the ground that it should not have exceeded two and a
half.

Lawrence Walsh having proved that 5 per cent. was the
usual commission charged at the plaintiff's concern, the jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the sum claimed.

FLETCHER V. GREY.
Verdict, by consent, for the plaintiff, for £l4 13s. 5d
HEATON V. YATES AND ANOTHER.

This was an action in replevin, brought by the plaintiff,
John Heaton, against the defendants, Henry Yates and John
Rye, for the recovery of the value of certain articles of fur-
niture, sold by the defendants for a quarter of a year's rent,
amounting to £22.
Mr. JAMES appeared for the defendants. No counsel ap-
peared on behalt of the plaintiff, and the witnesses on both
sides having been absent from court, a nonsuit was entered.

DOE DEM FARNWORTII AND OTHERS V. JOHNSON

This was an action of ejectment. Verdict for the plaintiff

BATEMAN AND OTHERS V. PINDER,

This was an action brought by the executor§ of James
Bateman, against the defendant, Robert Pinder, for the re-
covery of the amount of a promissory note for £75 is. Bd.
The note was.drawn in the year 1830, and had been signed
by several persons of the name of Pinder and Pinn, who were
severally related to each other. Various small sums had been
given in part payment of it, which went in discharge of the
interest and a portion of the principal, but a balance of £55
remained due, for the recovery of which the action had been
brought. The defendant pleaded that the note had been
made upwards of six years since, but as as a payment of £1
had been made subsequent to the bringing of the present ac-
tion, it was contended by counsel that such payment amounted
to an acknowlegment of the debt, and took the case out of
the statute.

His LORDSHIP ruled that the payment in question
amounted to an acknowledgment of the debt ; and a verdict
was returned for the plaintiffs for the full amount of the sum
claimed.

ELLISON V. BLINKARN

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Richard Elli•
son, against the defendant, William Blinkarn, for the recover!
of the amount of a bill of Exchange for £4O. Verdict fa
the plaintiff for the sum claimed