The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COI CT OV 11ENC11.--JAN. 13.

CANNAN AXD ANOTHER P. reap' TT AND ()Timm
This was an issue directed from the Vice-Chancel-
lor's Court, to try the right of several different parties
to certain goods brought over in the Union Bast t
din ship, by Captain Johnson, her commander. ('apt.
Johnson ha:• heroine a bankrupt, and the present
plaintiffa were his assignees, who clainiel the pro-
perty under that' commission. d.•femlants hail ob-
tained possession of the goods under an assignment
by Capt. Johnson ; but there waa a third party who
also claimed, namely, the assignees of Campbell and
Co. who claimed to have held bilk of lading,ussigned
to the:a previous to the assignment made by Jolivsep
to the present defendants. The present iilaintila and
tie assignees united in the present ease t•' destroy the
claim of the de1...15-Lima, t3asset anal Co. after which
the questims will remai oento he rout.'-tai 1r: to cen
them. The evidence of Capt. Johnson. for the plain-
tiffs, on the present case, went to establish the point,
'that the bills of lading were only placed in Canq.-
bell's hands as an agent, anal, at his ;caries% to enable
him to show them to the underwriters an the policy
of insurance, and to enable him to obtain the :Mow-
ance for short risk : whilst .%I r. Campbell, 1.1.1, was
examined, entered into a detail of pecuniary transac-
tions between hini anal Johnsaan, which J,,,,,,5„n
had become indebted to him in the sum of -1,0011/.
and he asserted that the bills of tailing were gicen to
him as a security fur the sum due to hian, and with ae
intention that he should have a face•. on the goods in
question, and that u. went down to the ship on tier
arrival in the Gower &lope, and there got the captain
to
give him the hill of lading. Against the claims of the
present defendants, it was contended, that they rlail:.•d
nailer an assignment made subsequent to the delivery of i
the bills of lading to Campbell, and after Johnson had
committed an act of bankruptcy. To est..bliali this
allegation, witnesses were called to prove that Captain
Johnson went to the defendant's vaunting-loom. in
Brood-street, to execute the Assigument, and t hat. n
there, a sheriff's officer was watching without-ride tin'
door to arrest him at the suit of Campbell ~ that an
attor►tey was sent fur to draw up the assignment,
which was dune, and it was executed immediately;
and that after having done so, he went out from
Messrs. Bassetts' counting house, not at the usual
door in Broad-street, but at a dour in Throginorton-
street, and that be did so to avoid the officer, who,
he suspected, was waiting► for him ; that be imme-
diately left town, and proceeded down the river to
join his ship, being immediately to proceed on another
voyage, and that be took precautions to avoid the
Admiralty barge and the silver arrow, which he
feared would iuterpose to arrest him after his leaving
the shore.
The Jary retired, and after being out an hour, some
of them ret tinted into Court, and stated to his Lordship,
that they were involved in considerable didiculty ;
they &acted un some points, and that au principle ;
" and," observed the Juryman who spoke for the
rest, " it is Wyss:We, my Lures, can ever
agree." •