The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-07 00:00:00

CHESTER ASSIZES

CROWN COURT—'
(Before Mr. Justice WILLI

Michael Mahar, aged 36, John Br
35, and John Hopkins, 23, were c
house of Peter Woods, at Capanhurs
moneys to the amount of £lO.
[We reported this case very fully
brought before the magistrates at Bi
The jury found Michael Mahar a
acquitted the rest.
The two were sentenced to fifteen
On the application of the Attorney
ordered Superintendent Boughey, a
Birkenhead police. to be rewarded for the
exercised in the apprehension of the prisoner

),lin Mahar,
ith entering the

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hen the prisoners were

niopk:

s guilty, and

CIVIL SIDE

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mice they had

(Before Mr. BARON MAITLE.)
The Learned Judges this morning exchanged courts, owing
to Mr. Justice Williams being connected with one of the
parties in a case tried. The whole proceFtlings, however,
were of a very uninteresting character in this Court.

NISI PRIUS COURT.--WEDNESDAY.
Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.
LOVELL V. BOYD AND OTHERS.—(Special jury.) In this
case Messrs. Jarvis and Welsby were for the plaintiff, and
Mr. Evans and Mr. Temple for the defendants. The action
was brought to recover the value of 3700 bushels of Dantzic
wheat which had been sold to the plaintiff, a large corn mer-
chant, residing at Bilston, in Staffordshire, from the defen-
dants who are corn merchants in Liverpool. The wheat
was sold by a person named Pratt, and ordered by him to be
sent to the order of the plaintiff by the defendant. On this
order it was shipped at Liverpool and f ransmitted to Preston
Brook, in this county, where it was lodged in the warehouse
of the Duke of Bridgewater, having been brought there in
plaintiff, who
one of the Duke's lighters. At this place it was stopped by
the defendants in consequence of some disagreement with
Pratte and refused to be delivered up to the
commenced his action for the recovery of it against the trus-
tees of the Duke of Bridgewater, but that action was stopped
on a judge's order, and directed to be commenced against the
present defendants. The defence to tile action
itw, and as, that
that tha
e
goods were stopped whilst in course of trans
countermand had been given to the order by Pratt. It ap-
peared, however, that the trustees of the Duke of 13ridge_
water were in the habit of acting as warehousemen, and es
such received the goods in question into their warehouse, to
hold to the order of the plaintiff. On this the learned judr,e
ruled that at the time the goods reached the warehouse, tirie
transit was at an end, that there had been no countermand
and directed the jury to find a verdict for the plaintiff, givi '
ng
however the defendants liberty to move to set it aside iil
the court above should be of opinion that he was wrong. case
Accordingly a verdict was entered for the plaintiff—da.
mages £768.

A'S ELECTION BILL

an action
(s. J.)—This was
PARRY V. MAINWARISG •
brought by Mr. Win. Parry, the landlord of the Gredlington
Arms Inn, Holt, in the county of Denbigh, to recover the
amount of a bill from the defendant, who is the member for
£32 9s. 3d.—he pleaded
the Denbighshire Burghs, for expenses incurred during the
last general election. The whole amount sought to be re-
covered was £122 95. 2d., part of which the defendant had
rdourceTsedarit'OlPa'y ; next that the liquors
first
dt ;thbautt
bthee
nbeavlaerrie,
had were in less quantities than 20s. worth at one time, and
therefore, under the tippling. act, the plaintiff was not enti-
tled to recover; and, thirdly, that the drink was supplied to
voters during an election for the burchs, and therefore illegal.
Mr. Jervis and Mr. Welsby were for the plaintiff, and \
V. Williams for the defendant. 1 Ir.
The trial of the cause occupied a considerable portion of
f
the day, and the reading over several of the items of the bill
of particulars created no little amusement in the court ; for
(1
instance, there was a ball at which Mr. Mainwaring
was pre-
sent, at which was supplied nine quarts of rum
for tea, 49
glasses of brandy and water, and
.19 bottles of pop, l -)' a''l
the3s.
were paid to a fiddler and harper ‘x ho attended to enliven
company.
WILLIAMS contended that fi
Mr. V.
orders given to supply the liquor '
defendant bad already paid.
leaving the court, found a verdict for t,
£52 9s. 3d., the amount sought to be reeL
The cases tried in the Crown Court, 1
Maule, were of so trivial a nature as I,
notice.

.were bad been no
evond the £7O, which the
• however, without

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plaintiff, damages

efore Mr. Baron

o deserve public