The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

AN EXPENSIVE CHANCERY SUIT.—For upwal ds of
thirty years past the Council of Exeter has been engaged
in a Chancery suit, in which the title to an estate, claimed
also by the Exeter Charity Trustees, is being litigated.
Meanwhile the costs multiply, the estate is absorbed, and
both parties having lost the value of the thing in dispute,
have the melancholy labour of fighting on for a favourable
decision as to who should pay the expenses.
COUNTY COURTS AND THE BAR.—The Chester
Courant announces that the county courts in that neigh-
bourhood will be regularly attended by the bar in full
costume, as our contemporary expresses it, " candidates
for business." It is added, that the bar will not " claim
exclusive audience ; and the cost of the barrister's fee
will only be allowed as taxation when the barrister is
instructed by an attorney. As both branches of the pro-
fession will be entitled to fees, we have no doubt they
will work comfortably together."
A HEAVY CASE.—A case is still in progress before the
Lord Chief Baron, in the Nisi Prius Court, which is quite
remarkable on account of the length of time it has 'occu-
pied. It is an insurance ease, in which a person engaged
in trade claims £2,700 for losses by fire, and two compa-
nies contest the claim, as being an excess of the injury
suffered. Twenty-eight days have already been occupied,
owing to the intricate and complicated nature of the evi-
dence. One of the jurors having died since the trial
commenced, both parties agreed to go on with eleven
jurors. One of the counsel, Mr. Armstrong, has been
attacked by illness ; and the judge himself has suffered
from an affection of the throat. The charge of the Chief
Baron has occupied six days, and the case has been again
postponed until Thursday next. The jurors are to be
paid one guinea a day each for their attendance.—Dublin
Paper. [On Thursday the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff for £743 over and above the sum lodged in court,
and 6d. costs. Mr. M`Donagli, counsel for the defen-
dant, tendered exception to his lordship's charge. The
agent for the plaintiff handed each of the jurors a draft
for twenty-five euineas, making in the whole 275 guineas.
The case was tried by eleven jurors, as above stated.]
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