The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-13 00:00:00

COURT OF REQUESTS.-YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr: Commissioner Lo wrs nEs.)
PROPPING A Cutiumtv.—Yesterday, at the Court of Re-
quests, a rather pretty looking female, scantily dressed, named
Yates, was summoned before the Commissioner, by a plasterer
named James Daffy, a genuine son of Erin, for the sum of
Bs.6d. for " propping her chimbley," which Mrs. Yates re-
fused to pay.
The complainant on being sworn said—" I agreed yer honer
wid dhat dere 'ootrran to colour tree, rooms for her for 16s.
Well, ver harmer, de work, was done and de money paid.
(A hem!) An' shore enough whin de woman's husband paid
me de money, siz he, James siz he, fetch a lather and repair
that there chimbley on dhe roof. Wid dhat same, yer hanner,
I did dhat saute, an' propped up dhe chimbley, an' dhe charge
comes to Bs. 6d. This gentl,'man 'll piny to you dhe illegaut
way in which I elewated the chimbley to dhe perpendickler."
The gintleman called on by the plaintiff, whose coat exhibited
all that regard for ventilation about the elbows, which usually
distinguishes the coats of " Irish gintlemen," then said, " Well
shur, that gintleman's husband as refuses to pay, emplied me to
flag a thrifle. First and foremost I axed 'im was id extra
work ?"

The Commissioner.—" Tell what was done ?"
Witness.—" There was a leetle flaggin', and the chimbley
was prapp'd
The Commissioner.—" What was the flagging?"
Witness.—" Id was in dhe back scullery, and in dhe
leetle-
house."
Defendant—(dropping a courtesy)—" I noes nothink of the
debt; what I agreed for was this: he was to colour one room
up stairs, to slap-dash one room down stairs, and to colour the
pantry, the petty, and the scullery, and to do any other triflin'
jobs whet wos of no consequence. And as to whet flaggin he
did, all he did wos to prop up a flag on the petty flour with a
brick ; and as to the roof, he put up a lodder and propped the
chimney with a brick, for which I gev him his 'lowance, I had
the work examined by a competent and well edecated gintle-
man,, who said the work was too well paid for already. Bless
your worship, he nearly capsized the chimney while he was
propping it, he was so drunk."
The Commissioner.—" Have you any witness here to prove
the value of the work?"
Detendant.-" No, sir."
The Commissioner.—" Then I =it order the debt to be paid
with costs."
A CONVENIENT " TWO AND THREEPENCIi."—A person
named Robert Shelton M'Kenzie, who is employed on the
Journal newspaper, was summoned by Mr. Robert Arnold, news
agent, for a debt of £1 4s. I.od. for newspapers furnished to him,
for which he refused to pay, on the ground that 2s. 3d. of the
amount was paid. The !defendant did not appear. Mr. Ar-
nold's young man then stated that this amount was owing to
Mr. Arnold by M'Kenzie for the Age and other newspapers,
which had been supplied to him betwixt the 18th of May and
the 18th of September. The account, amounting to £1 4s. 10d.
had been rendered, but the defendant disputed the amount of
2s. 3d. A former bill had been presented to him of £l.2s. 3d.,
of which he paid 20s. on account, and left the 2s. 3d. on, which
was added to the next account; and now he stated that he had
paid the 2s. 3d., and refused to pay the present account on that
ground. He had never paid the 2s. 3d. as he had stated.
Amount ordered nisi.