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

COURT OF REQUESTS.-YESTERDAY.

(Before Mr. Commissioner LowrinEs.)
PROPPING A .CHlNBLEy.—Yesterday, at the Court of Re-
quests, rather pretty looking female, scantily dressed, named
Yates; was suminioned before the Cotnmissioner, by a plasterer
nape& danies.CLuffy, a genuine son of Erin, for the sunk of
85..6.di. for "propping her ,chimbley," which Mrs. Yates re=
fut4ml to pay. •
The ekintplaiititiit On being sworn said—" I agreed yer honer
wid.slbat dere '.oornala to colour tree rooms for her for 16s.
Well, vet banner, de wurk was chine and de money paid.
(A hem!) .An'• share 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 d'hat same, yer banner,
I did (filet same, an' propped up dhe chimbley, an' dhe charge
comes to Bs. 61. This gentl'olan 'll piuv to you dhe illegant
way in which I elewated the chimbley to dhe perpendickler."
The yintletrian called on by the plaintiff, whose coat exhibited
all that regard for ventilation about the elbows, which usually
distinguishes the coats of " Irish yintlemen," 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
wurk ?"

The Commissioner.—" Tell what was done ?"
Witness.—" There was a leetle and the chimbley
was prapp'd_up."
The Commissioner.—" What was the flagging?"
Witness.—" Id was in dhe back scullery, and in dhe Leslie-
house." •
Defenflant—(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 trifliu'
jobs whot wos of no.consequence. And as to whot 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 jmt up a fodder and propped the
chimney with a brick, for which I gev him his gowance. 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 ?"
Defendant.—" No, sir."
The Commissioner.—"'Then I must order the debt to be paid
with costs."
A CONVENIENT " Two AND THREEPENCE."-'-A person
named Robert Shelton M'Kenzie, who is employed on the
Journal newspaper, was summoned by Mr. Robert Arnold, news
agent, fur a debt of 4s. lod. for newspapers furnished to him,
for which he refused to pay, on the ground that 2s. 3d. of the
amount was paid. The -_cl-efendant did not appear. Mr. Ar-,
uold'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 hill 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; anti 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 be had stated.
Amount ordered nisi.