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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-02 00:00:00

SMITH V. COARE.

This case was somew',at similar to the last, and Mr.
Cardwell stated the particulars, which were also proved.
The defendant, James Smith, sought to recover damages
from Edward Coare, (now 271 years old,) for the seduc-
tion of his daughter, Isabel!, a woman now 27 years of
age. The father of the plaintiff, and the father of the de-
fendant, farmed contiguous land at Mellor, near Black-
burn. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—damages
£3O. •

HARRISON AND OTHERS V. CADWELL.
Gilbert Harrison and Co., iron merchants in this town,
sought to recover a balance of account for iron supplied
to James Cadwell, a blacksmith, at Southport. The
plaintiff's case was proved, and a verdict got for the full
amount laid—.£3o Os. 10d.

SIRDEFIELD V. WALMSLEY.
In this case Mr. Sirdefield, keeper of the George Inn,
Liverpool, sought to recover from the defendant, the son
of a respectable person, the sum of £B4 18s. Bd., for board
and lodging, dinners to parties, keep of a horse, &c., from
January to July, last year. A barmaid spoke to the ac-
curacy of the account as compared with the bar book,
which she then kept herself. The learned judge remarked
that the defendant's expenditure might be extravagant,
but if he incurred it he must pay it. Verdict accordingly
for the whole amount

BRANCKER' KNT. V. MARSHALL.
An action brought by Sir T. Braticker, of the Royal
Bank of Liverpool, to: recover the amount of a bill and
interest for £6OO, and another for £650, both drawn in
March, 1841, upon Marshall, Barber, and Co. The evi-
dence being heard rendering Henry Marshall, the de-
fendant, liable, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—
damages, with interest, £1406 16s.

"WRIGHT V. .
Plaintiff, Mr. George Wright STEELE,
brewer, and wine and

spirit merchant, sought to recover £63 10s. from Steele,
the defendant, who was tenant of a public-lious:! in
Pownall-square. The orders for, and delivery of, the
goods were proved. Verdict for the full amount.

WHITE V. SHARP.
This was an action to recover a sum of £377 15s. 2d.
(with interest,) on an award. Mr. Crompton and Mr.
Watson appeared for the plaintiff, and M. Cowan for the
defendant.

Mr. WATSON stated the particulars. The plaintiff had
been captain of the ship " John Campbell," of which the
defendant, Captain Sharp, was owner. The plaintiff
sailed from this port in 1841 to Sydney, thence to India,
and thence hcme to England. In Bombay the mortga-
gees of the ship took possession of her, as they had a
right to do. Plaintiff on arriving in England with the
ship in 1813, presented his accounts and vouchers to the
owner, but obtained no setilement. A reference to arbi-
trators was subsequently had by order of a judge, and
Mr. Cook, superintendent of Pilots, Mr. Hazelden, and
Mr, Singlehurst were appointed as such, the agreement
being that the decision of two of them should be binding.
They awarded, after hearing all the evidence, £344 to the
plaintiff. This, however, the defendant refused to pay,
and hence the present action. The plea for this refusal
was that the ship on her way home put into St. Helena,
where a captain Mercer bad shortly before been ship-
wrecked, that the plaintiff had brought him, his wife, two
infant children, and servant, home to England, for which
the defendant made a charge against the plaintiff for the
extravagant sum of £220. The arbitrators had well con-
sidered the charge, but considered it most exorbitant,
and having found that the usual charge in such cases was
Is. 6d. a day per-head for adults, had allowed accordingly
£l2 to be deducted from the captain's claim, which they
thought sufficient, more particularly as the plaintiff was
(as is usual) ordered by the governor of the island to take
the parties home. Mr. Singlehnrst said he would not
award, and never signed it. Mr. COWAN contended that
the award was bad in law, as it aet forth the names of
the three arbitators, and used the pronoun '• we" as ap-
plying to all of them, yet was signed by only two of them,
and he cited a case in support of his argument. For the
plaintiff it was contended on the other hand that it was
perfectly sufficient as the award of the majority, and in
this view of the point his Lordship concurred. Another
oblection was raised for the defendant, that the plaintiff
had brought home Captain Mercer and family in the
cabin, but it appeared that he had no other place in which
to put them. The jury, under the direction of his Lord-
ship returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, to-
gether with interest, &c. £3BO 18s. 2d.