The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-10 00:00:00

LAW INTEL ma ENCE.
tOURT OF CHANCERY, Jopy
ILLEGITIMATE
WILKINSON V. ADAM.
To this case, arising out of the will of the 'testator,
the late Mr. Wilkinson, who bequeathed a Consider..
able pait of his property to his illegitimate children,
Sir SAmtrEt. RomILLY yesterday, on behalf of the
Plaintiff, the nephew of the Testator, who claims
the Estates, prayed for judgment.
The Loan CHANCELLOR stated, that his associate
Judges in this case (Mr. Baron Thompson and Mr.
Justice Gibbs) had not yet been able to form a de.
cided opinion upon the case.---Judgment was there-
fore deferred.

COURT OF KI\G•S ELNCH, GUILDHALL, Jct.? 9.
ASSAULT AND BATTERY.

L%MBiltT 9. Giniom.
TMs was an action of assault and battery. The
parties had a merry making with some neighbotust,
to celebrate Christmas-eve, at a public-house at
Edmonton, and having sacrificed several bowls of
punch to the jolly God, some altercation however,
arose about the quality of the parting bon I,
which the Plaintiff and Defendant became the
ing disputants, and after a good deal of abusive lan..
gnage, most liberally bestov.ed upon each other, the
Defendant rose from the table, Kent round to the
ether side, where the Plaintiff was sitting, and
,struck him twice on his teat ; the company tt:e.t in-
terfered and prevented further violence.
Mr. PARK, for*the Defendant, declined making
any other defence than observing, that it was a mere
•alehouse squabble, at one o'clock in the moritinz,
when the parties were all drunk, and the Jury would
best appreciate the injury, by giving ally damages
bet Ween 'tc shilling and the. smallest coin of the
realm.

lord ELLENBOROUGH thought it a most trumpery
.caselo•bring iuto a Court'of Justice, and

The Jury being of the same opinion, found a Ter-
dict for the Plaintiff—Damages, one farthing, auci,
costs, one farthing.

A NEW MODE OF EJECTING A TENANT.

CLARKE V. TURNER.

This was in-action of Trespass—The Plaintiff was
a poor shoemaker by trade, and the, Dfendant re.
presented
.to be a man of opulence. The former
rented the ground floor of a house in Fisher's-lane, of
which the Defendant had become the .purchaser, and
wished to get the Plaintiff out. of possession ; but his
term not being within a day or so of being expired,
.he determined to remain where he was until the. last
moment. The Defendant resolved on the other hand
to get him out, first distrained his goods for the rent
just then due, but finding this would not prevail, he
determined on the most effectual means of ejecting
him on the sudden, and for this purpose, ordered two
loads of hot lime to be thrown on the floor of (ha
apartment where the Plaintiff, with his journeymen,
was then 'at work, declaring, he (the Defendant)
would stein' him out as they did vermin on board
ship; and before the Defendaut could make good his
tetreat, he was up to his ancles in hot lime, and his
wtakiog tools etnersed in it. To this action the De-
fendant pleaded " Leave and Licence." But it ap-
peared that the licence only extended, to permit the
:Defendant to bring in and deposit materials for re.,
pairing the house in the yard and unoccupied apart•
rents.
The Defendant's defence was, that having purchased
the premises, was desirous to put them in thorough
repair, and let them to respectable tenants, but he
found the present occupants vetly troublesome, and
wished to get rid of them. One went away without.
paying his rent, and the Plaintiff would neither pay
tent nor quit the premises.

Load Et.r.stsnottoticrt thought, the Jury might col-
lect from all the circumstances of this case, that if
licence was granted, it could not have heea of the na-
ture the Defendant put into practice ; at all events it
seemed an action on which very little damages could
be founded, no very great injury was done, but they
would give such damages as the nature of tho injury
called for.

The Jury, after a short consultation, found a ver-
dict. for the Plaintttl—Ditnages 101. and costs.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jacr 9.

VINCENT LADLY AND SWAW, ASSiCi!VEE3 Of Dow.

SON V. PRATER. ,

This was an action of Troyer, brought to recover
sundry bills of exchange, to the amount of 4,5931.
the property of the bankrupt estate pt. Mr. Dow-
son, of which hills the DefAudant had obtained pos-
session.

It appeared that Dawson was for several years j;
silk• manufacturer, of some note, in Cheapside: In
the month of Odtober, 1810, Messrs. Scott, Shaw,
, and Co. merchants, in Norwich, to whom Mr. Dow.
son was indebted, arrived in London, for the pur.
pose of examining the goods and boas belonging to
their debtor. During this examination they had oc.
casion to hold conversation with Mr. Prater, dub
present Defendant, who is an eminent silk-mer-
chant iq Noble-street, Cheapside, concerning tins
posture of his friend Mr. Dawson's affairs. Mr.
Prater having been represented to them as a creditor
of Mr. Dowson's, they enquired how much his claims&
amounted to; he answered, to upwards of one thou.
sand pounds. They were somewhat satisfied with
this statement, and with the goods which they had
found in the shop of Mr. Dowson, and departed
again to Norwich. This happened upon the 20th
of October, and a commission of bankruptcy was
sued out on the 22d of December following, against
Mr. Dowson. At the examination before the Com-
missioners, Mr. Prater deposed that he had received
bills to the amount for which the action was brought,
in the middle of September, from Mr. Dowson, out
Of his own bee will' and solicitation, In a journey
which he had made to Uxbridge. For the purpose
of proving that these Bills were givento Mr. Pratera
with a consciousness of approaching insolvency, was
the aim of the present action, or otherwiset o prove,
that act of baniteeptcy had been committed within
Iwo months of their transmission to his hands.
numbolt Mowbray said, that he had been clerk
Ito Mr. Dowses, up to the period of his becoming
insolvent. Upon the -20th of September, he recol.
lectod a shawl printer, of thaname of Littler, wbo
executed work for Dowson, calling at their shop, de-