The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-06 00:00:00

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COURT OF KINGS BENCH, M&aca 5.

MANDY V. aiscitavarts.
This was as action upon a bill of exchange for
SUL accepted by the defeetiast, and also epos a pro-
military ante for 2501. loads by the defendant is tie
plaiatiCs-.lltvear.

The cue be the plaiatig was this t--Tbe securities
in tineeden *ere riven to tie pielatilr, an elderly gee-
ileums, by the defendant, a widow lady, in considera-
tion of Reel"' which he bad advanced to her see.
refftrettillisol that she teas entitled to certain property
, of her he. is Chancery, and that he shetild
be hNM4If the-fruits of the Chancery snit. The
lady hoeineAritenveared the bill and the note, the pre-
sent action was brought.
' Mr

Mr. °vulgar sad Mr. CHITTY were for the plaintiff.
#froScrat.avv, for the defendant, questioned tie
hose fides of the consideration for the securities in
question, and suggested that the plaintiff could not
recever is point of law, inasmuch as the consideration
was of a very delicate nature. His instructions were
that the defendant was the widow of a Naval Wirer.
She met with the plaintiff in a stage coach; and the
plaintiff, though an elderly teatimes, was 'mitts*
with her charms. Is consign's,* of this introdust-
timi he onderteek to furnish a house for her, at igg-
ham, at hir request, and as a matter of personal ac-
rousmodatiem she came ander the securities in quer

tins. The furniture was provided, bet the plaintiff
leaving omitted to pay for it, the defendant was ar-
rested and sent I. the King's Beneh prison.—The
plaintiff being fired of the lady, bed, it seemed, n•
signed her sisa younger lower, as appeared in a letter
in its hand-writing so the defendant, in the following
terns

" Deat Mary—lt is great pleasure to ins to hear from
von, but I am set able to espies the happiness I shall
?eel if you will favour me with your company tweseressw,
at twolvs o'clock. lam bahpy tf hear you have got.*
good projector. I have very-great plasma and happr-
ness is seeing you, bat I am not able so often as I could
with. lam too old for," lA. Sac.
le 'Pother letter the plaintiff stated, that the
sideration for these securities was twelve months imp
prisoement. and the loss of two eligible sheathes
which he might have had.
These letters were read in evidence, and a Mrs,
Lawson proved that she had seen the plaintiff and the
defendant together at an upholsterer's in Wimple.
street, where they were ordering fernitore for a hoses
at Eghaa. The plaintiff often visited the defendant
there.
Mr. GUSNIT called the plaintiff's solicitor in reply,
who proved that the plaintiff was a very imbecile old
gentleman, now a priaoser in the King's Bench, and
so old a .as as to be incapable of managing his owe
affairs.
The aim went to the Jury under the Learned
Judge's directions, and
The Cuter JOIITICI remarked, that, theegh such as
intimacy as was alluded to nip's have existed, wend-
ties given for value received were to be so considered
until the soatrary should be shown.
The Joey gemmed a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mages.l4o/.

comma, e. sout.soip.
The plaintiff is this caw Is a efopeellskiklia Plight
to recover 6504, as mosey alleged Stllemiit, lest
by him to the &readmit, lop • , He
produced two I 0 U's sigma by Hit ono
for 400/.. the ether for 250/., addressed to easily,
and without a data
The SwlClTOß•Oinnalii objected to these deco-
meats being rewired in evidence, apes the crowd
that they were accountable receipts. and, as such,
ought to be stamped, according to the pow/slow of
the last stamp set.
The Loan Com JUSTICS said he had always sees
such documents received unstamped, het would rs-
ortte the point for the decision of the Court above.
Little or so other evidence being gives of the exist-
wee of the debt. and the 1 0 U's not showing when,
I) whom. or for what they hid been passed, the Jury,
without requiring the defendant's conasel to go into
1:s case, founds verdict for the defendant.
In the COURT or Kixo's BIINCU oo Monday as is-
sue was brought from the Vice Chancellors' Court, io
the ease of FORD, Ass's:macs, &c. v. BRANCO, to try
the validity of a Commission of Bankrupt, issued
against O. S. Ford, an attorney, son of the plaintiff,
in May 1820. The question turned on, whether cer-
tain or very limited dealingt in wine, which were stated
to bare been entered into, with a view to the being
made a bankrupt, were sufficient to constitute a trader.
The Jury found fir the defendant, thereby negativing
the validity of the Commission.
Is the COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,the same day. was
tried an action, DAVIS O. Tna BANK or ENGLAND. to
recover two sums of 5000/. Three per Cent. Consols,
and a third sum of 751. Long Annuities, which were
sold out is J y, 1820, without the plkistirs con-
ant, by powers of Attorney, forged by the plaintiff's
brother. The Bank resisted the action on the ground
that the plaintiff had concealed from them the fact of
the forgery till September 1820. at which time his
brother, Jobs Henry Davis, bad escaped from prison
and bad proceeded to America. Lord Chief Justice
DALLAS summed up to the Jury, who toned • verdict
for the defeedents ea the fact of the concealment from
the sth of March till September, with liberty for the
plaintiff to set it aside if the Court should think hits
entitled to maintain the action
la the CONSI CoUIIT, the ealne day, in the
snit of nullity of marriage, instituted by the Honour-
able' Augastas Stanhope (y umpires sea of the Earl
and Coasting of Harrington), on the ground of frau-
dulent concealment of Christian names, he being thes
• miser, ender the age of 21, and wanting the con-
sent of lawfulgoardias. Sire. Root Newt, after going
throngh the evidence very minutely, pronounced see.
tenor of Nullity, subject to appeal,

Ann Robinson, of Ayton Hanks, aged 103, who lost
her are (rote a coal waggon passing over it. as NMI.
tioned in a former paper. 11:11 been discharged cared
from the Newcastle Infirmary.

A t ontietnan, 80 years of age, resident within 5 miles
of Carllals, proposes to walk to Newcastle-open-Trio
from that place in one day. The distance is 56 miles.
If the veteran pedestrian accomplish this, it will cer-
tainly IN &wonderful performance.

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