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LAW lATRLLIGRNCE.

COURT. OF CHANCERY, Dec. 13.

nr:viury r. Prxxoric AND MAUNDER.

This case again occupied the attention of the Lord
4 hancellor. Having cestertlay heard Mr. Wetherell,
Mr. Sugden, and Mr. Wilbraham, in support of the de-
fendants, Mr. Hart this day contended that the rral
question was, whether they had so conducted them-
se:ves as to warrant the plaintiff in calling for an in-
:twee dissolution of the co-partnership or not. He
denied that the affidavit of Mr. Hensley I.a I been made
ender any usi-take, or that the payment of the debt of
the old copartnership to Messrs. Tipper anti Fry, had
in reality been made as stated by his Learned Friend
on the other side.

Its the course of the argument, an assertion nag
made by Mr. Hart relative to the entries in the Ledger,
which was denied by Mr. Wetherell: and
The LORD CHANtILLOR observed, that there wit:•
many accounts in th it Ledger which he thought °nett
not to have been there. He also thoneht it would be
the better way not to go into any thing that was not
•wo►n to.

Mr. HART again resumed his argument, and went
on to shew,.that there was no gronnd for the accusa-
tion against his client, or that the injunction had is-
sued on the main point, as it had been argued, of the
affidavit of Mr. Hensley. After contending at some
length, he concluded by declaring his him opinion to
be, that taking the case as it had been brought for-
ward altogetheY, it made wore in favour of his client
than of that of his opponents.
Mr. Hums iironted at some length, and at two
o'clock the Lord Chancellor rose. buying observed,
that if au *Saliva was made as to whether.entries had
er had not been made since the injunction issued, by
to-morrow morning he would deal nab the disposal of
the books accordingly.

COURT OF MINH'S BENCH, Dlr. 13.
'M'iddlesez Adjourned filttings after Michaelmas Term, be-
fore the Lord Chief Jostle* mid a Special Jury.

TDB MAToR AND ComPORATION uF ilktl,lNO r•. VINE/.
ibis was an action of debt to rainier certain tolls
alleged to be due to the Corporation of Reading, in re-
'pees of corn sold in the market of that town. The'
object of the action was to assert the right claimed by
the Corporation, and derived by virtbe of a Erant of
Eli:sixth, and eotifirnied by a decision of the Exche-
quer in the reefs of James I.
The plaintiff,' case was conducted by Mr. MASYAT,
Mr. 011,111fIll, Mr. lisit.Latis, sod Mr. Bat tut, and the
defendant's by Ma. ham, Mr. 44111.11, Mr. Co/4TX,
and Wf.

The toll claimed br the plaintiffs was at the rate of
one quart upon every quarter of wheat sold its the
market, en market and other days, by pocket or sac::
%ample', whether the bulk was or' was not pitched ; ,
and the claim was founded, first upon the charter of '
Elisabeth, convey* the like tolls as were enjoyed !iv '
the Abbots of the Monastery of Retdinr, rat the time
of the Dissolution by Henry VIII., as Lord of the Ma-
nor, with the like liability to repair bridges, high-
imp, he., is the borough, foe which purposes is ape'
resod that dier *Mir woes appropriated e seemed. sport
a decision in the Coate of Bachesistae, in the time of
James 1., when.a precisely similar claim as that Dort!
in dispute was establithed ; and, third, upon an in%.l-,
viable customary payment for the last 30 years, esta• ,'
Wished by parol evidence. 1
The defendants relied upon Charters of Rich. 1.
end John, and Ministers' accounts since the time of
31 Hen. VIII., in which there was no recognition of
the right now sit up, and it was contended that, as
the Abbots of Reading had not claimed this till It
could not be enjoyed by the plaintiffs, except by !era/
title, derived under an express grant of the Crown, of
which there was no evidence.
The ease went to the Jury under the Learned
Judge's directions, and they toned a verdict for tie
plaintiff—Damages 405., with liberty to the defendant
to tender a Bill of Exeeptiotrs.
Sitting, before Mt. 7ttstlee DAVIET.
ZADWAR P P. Damn AND uA LK ER.
Tlis was an action brought to recover the amount
of a bill of costs, autonnting to about 401., for busi-
oesa.dost by the plaintiff, as an attorney. The case
endeavoured 0 be made out by the plaintiff was,
eat in the year 1817, the defendanti had given him
directions to sue two persons, named Moses and
Scott, for the. recovery, of a debt of pliant 31., argil
that his coats cud eapences in suing. the partite
amounted to tbe sum in question. One of the plain-
tiff's witnesses said, that when the bill of costs was
delitered to Walker, the latter acknowledged he bad
given instructions for the writ to be issued, but that
hr did not think it would go so far, or words to that
eget.
. Mr. Dawaserr, on behalf of,e:e defi4ndanto, s'lld,
be shoal& be able to prove that,tlbe only instsuctioio
Welke: had giVen to the attorney as, to write a letter,
cOuing on We* end Scott to pay the 5/. which ibey
anutl ; and that although these parties afterwartis
Lev a .cogoorit.for the payment of the money, the
Wide` prectiteditdr to judgment. As to Brine, he
never .thought if 4011-4 thing as i ilertliseing tumid
iiide followed lip.'ilitiF he was rifled en to pay the
attorney's bill. Besides, be should prove In seiner-
ledirment en lid pie et the plaiediff, *as he had had
no authotity'lle reamed in die Reties, but that he had
taken ft ott hiilwra.mipensibility. lb. Denman, Iflr
aides, said, !ha eheitild prove that Walker wile ander
ace at the tihi sI qiiestisio. , . - • 4.. r.
Proof heinitilitil• hi dolt* iestease es Se *All'
fancy. of tbe delandeat Walkeet die plaintiff was den-
waited.
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