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chase or use Of any of these London particulars'
From tie London Times.
Secrets Of TIC Vine Trd1e-RemarkGbe trial IN
tic Coart Of Erchequer.
Osborne VS.. The London Dock Company.--This
was an action of detinue, arising out OF the stop
page Of certain pipes Of wine claimed by the III,
gitive.i The defendants pleaded mot guilty" and
Il denial tnat the plaintiff was possessed OF the
wines in question. As to the claim of the plain
til in respect of the pipes and casks, they paid
IG25 into Court, and the plaintiff accepted the same
in satisfaction Of 50 much of his cause OF action.
Mr.. Osborne-I am the plaintiff, | am q wine aud
spirit merchant in Water lane. Tower street; !
have attended rummage sales at the docks; they
are unclaimed wines, sold after three years, for
rent, on the 9Th of April, 1854, l bought some ltal-
ian red wines--I think fourteen pipes and four
hbds.; | paid ELS 0s. 9d.; Mr.. Lintof, as broker
fol Mr.. Robinson, bought somg Of the same wine;
there were about six pipes and seven or eight casks
no paid EGO los. 3D.; and | bought them of him
at a profit Of IS. per pipe. paying E23 IDS. 2d.;
that was on the llth of May; they were all sound;
| had bought other lots which turned out sour; OF
the two lots l FIRST mentioned, Ii pipes and I hogs
heads were removed 70 the London Docks in the
name of f.. Smith. IIo was a publican out Of
business, residing with me at that timo.
1t is tho general practice Of merchants to remove
wines i'll the names of their clerks. The object is
to do away with the prejudice in which the trade
is wrapped, SO as to prevent the name oc the real
owner or maker of the wine from being known.-
The wines were entered in the name of Smith,
The sour wines wero removed to my premises, and
paid duty on them MS vinegar; afterwards other
portions OF the wines were removed to the London
Docks, and | received warrants from the company
for the wines in the name Of Smith. They were
placed in the East quay. l afterwards gave an or
der Tor waiting" the wine; that consists of mix
ing all the pipes together in one large vat, and
certifying" with % gallons Of French brandy
/ 1h 1..ra.. = = 49,, aA,N IL a.,A1- Thn so
ting is entirely done by the company's servants
After three days the wine was drawn oil int
twenty two pipes and one h%ogshead. received
document from the company showing the precis'
quantity in each. / sent in the new casks, ant
they were housed in the East wharf. All this i
done by the dock servants. AT my request thes'
zines wero afterwards transferred to my NAME
That was the 4th or 5th of July, 1855, before tn
company would deliver one pipe which had sold
Some Of these wines were delivered to me or m
order. One pipe / sold to Mr.. Percy for f20.-
Six others were delivered to me in November.
blended them with other wines. The compan
stopped the next delivery order, and refused t
deliver any more to me. The Waiting cost Gl0.
All the charges l have paid since bought tn
wine amount to ESQ. Nothing but brandy wa
put into tho wines at the London Docks, but to th
st. Kathcrine's dock | sent q preparation" whic
l knew found its way into the wines. In May
1854, | employed a broker named Taylor, to bu
some French reds" at a rummnge sale of tn
London Docks. Some of them, for which | ha
paid &27, were afterwards sent to the Londo
Docks to be waited. l paid G5 commission. II
was to buy anything sat a price, that is, any
thing which was cheap. These last wines wer
also waited by the defendants by my order. The
went to them in the name of Thomas Jones, a Sc
want of mine. They were drawn off into seve
x pipes and four hogshoads. Two hogsheads hay
d been delivered to me l sold them to Mr.. Perc
for ESQ, l think. When heard the wine wa
stopped. | went to my solicitor, | applied at til
Docks for samples, which were refused.
Cross-examined.-- keep public house now.-
The average cost price Of the pipes bought Wa
81 los. ID. The casks / sent to receive the wine
from the Waiting we've all, with one exception, Of
port wine casks. At present prices, port cam,
be got from the shipper at less than ELS. III
French reds arc worth &c or es per h~ogshcad.
have not sold any of those wines as port. All d
he scripti)ns Of reds" when they get into a viii
to merchants cellar. and are blended, are sold
10 ports" l sold these, so blended, as port
s. Draught port fetches los. or rs. per gallon, an
ID we get as much as we can for it in bottles. Aft,
W the Waiting the casks differ in quality and coli
- considerably. When l tasted the wines in Il
Docks l thought them very much improved.