Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-20
IRELAND.
IMPORTANT LAND DECISION.

IMPORTANT LAND DECISION.
BELFAST, January 1s. Commissioners
O'Hagan, Little and Vernon, sitting as
court of appeal, yesterday delivered iudg-
ment in the first appeal from the decision Of
the assistant commissioners under the land
act, who reduced the tenants improved fixed
rent lease from e36 los to ESQ. The ques-
tion decided was whether the rent should lie
varied. The court affirmed the decision of the
assistant commissioners. Commissioner Yer
non dissented. Great Importance ia attached
to the judgment, as il settles the point in the
land act known as "Healy's clause" The
case will be carried to the court of appeals.
The appeal in the above case was by Mrs.
Dunseath against decision reducing the
rent of person who formerly held on lease
but is now yearly tenant by about &c, fix
ing it at ESQ. The appellants counsel sub
mittee three important points under the land
act. His maximum claim was that the land
lord is entitled to rent for all Improvements
made prior to the expiration of the lease.
1t was contended that by change of the
nature of the tenants holding, from lease
to a yearly tenancy, these improvements
could not be considered as made by tenant or
his predecessors in the title. II the court
declined to grant the proposition, the land
lord was entitled to receive rent for all i'm
provements made during the currency of the
lease, except those made by the interested
tenant, as his predecessors in occupancy
could not be considered predecessors in title.
Finally, the landlord was at least entitled to
rent for all Improvements made prior to the
lease and TO some rent in respect to i'm
provements made during the lease, as the
tenant by having use Of these improvements
had already been partly compensated.
Commissioners OHagan and Little decided
against appellant on all these points.
CoNNELL TURNS STATES EVIDENCE.
DUBLIN, January 19.-At the Cork Assizes
to-day the outlaw leader, Copnell, pleaded
guilty to various charges against him. He
will be witness in other cases, in which the
members of his band are defendants AT the
time of his arrest, in the latter part of De-
cember, for having arms in the proclaimed
district Connell was already suspected of
being leader of the band which had COM
mitted the outrages rendering the district of
Mill street one of the most notorious in
Ireland. His arrest took place at
Mushra, under exciting circumstances.
large force OF police, acting on private
information, surrounded the house of
Thomas Shea, farmer, living in lonely
district near the Mushra mountains. Upon
knocking, the police we're admitted and two
of them rushed up stairs and found Connell
in bed, but dressed. He endeavored 10 d.
vest himself OF his waistcoat, but the police
after a fierce struggle with him, obtained
of the pockets a gold watch stolen from a
man named Cudmore during re-
cent moonlight raid They also
found in his possession list of persons who
had committed offenses against the unwritten
law of the Ribbon Society, and who were
consequently marked for vengeance The
list is signed and countersigned with fictitious
names, and concludes thus: Examined and
approved of as work for night squad. Cap
tain Moonlight" Among the intended VIC
Tins were james Sullivan and Dennis
Cookley, farmers, who were to be shot
on suspicion of paying rent, and
Sullivan's two daughters, whose hair was to
be cut to the bone-oHe for having spoken to
policeman and the other for dealing with a
prescribed person. Other persons were men,
toned whose ears we're to be cut for lesser
offenses. In consequence of the documents
found on Connell five young men were ar
rested in Mill street, named keeler, Connor,
Leahy, Farrell aud Hurley. Farrell and
Leahy have been identified as belonging to
the party implicated in the attack on the
house of Mrs. Fitzgerald.