The National Register. — 1821-10-29 (London, England)

LIABILITV OF OALIIIIIII...,OARNETT V. VILLAS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who resi tea at Worcester, against the defendants, who were proprietors of the Worcester mail, to recover the value of a parcel lost by the negligence of their servants. The cause was tried at the Sittings alter Trinity Term, 1820, and a verdict found for the plaintiff. The plaintiff, on the nib of September, 1819, wrote a letter to his correse pondents, Messrs. Moore and Stranger, desiring them to send a quantity of saraeoet„ of the value of 01. The article was accordingly packed is the form of a parcel, and carried to the office of the Bull and Mouth lon. It was then conveyed by the Worcester mail to the Green Man and Stilt, Oxford-street, where it was taken out nail left at the defendant's office, to be forwarded by another coach, called the heavy coach. The parcel was lust out of the said heavy coach, but it did ant appear by what means. Before it wee I ked, the defendant eallibited the usual notice, stating that the coach proprietors would not he answerable fur any parcel above the value of five pounds unless specially insured; nod the (medial for the opinion of the Court was, to hethi. r the plaintiff was eutitled to recover in this action, the parcel having bee] booked in the usual way, and not paid fur, ;, being above the value of 51.) If the Court should be of opinion the plaintiffcould recover, the verdict was to stun.'; but if they decided on the contrary, a nousuit was to be entered. 'Cite Cow t, having heard Mr. Chitty for the plaintiff, and Mr. Pollock fur the defendant, gave judgment. They held, that it was clearly a case of gross negligence on the part of the defendant's servants. Lill case the parcel had gone by the mail the loss would not then have happened. It was not to be considered a loss by accident or mistake. The parcel was carried to the office sad booked for the mail. It did not aowever go by the mail, bait was .rot by ■nether coach.— That was an act Anne by the deli ialmit's servants for ins berelit, and the Court would lose si4lit a cominim sense if t.ley did not consider the plaintiff eutilleti to recover. Tee verdict, under all the cuenumtances, nits entered for lie plaintiff. Several ntner special questions were argued, but none of public importance.  On Thursday afteinoon last, between four and five o'clock, all aid I ttttt se, corner of Maddux-stret I, IZe.r.enty sits eet, which had formerly bee swell kouiv a by the imine of the S Whew-street eating-house, fell with a toeineitions crash, by which a wonsaii.named taunt:ale, with her intuit, u hoe child about IS months old, were killed. 'l'he husband of Mis. Glanville was a carpenter employed in building the new houses in Regent-street, and lived with hi- family in tile house which fell, for convenience. Ile had paid no rent for some time pastas the house was condeinned.—Some person had previously told them it would fall in twenty-four hour •, and they made up their minds to quit it on Thursday morning. Toe husband was at work, and ut tile time above mentioned it was observed the walls were giving way. Mrs. Glanville heard a creak, and her eldest son, 14 sears, instantly ran oa!; she seised the infant, and another had, two years old, to follow, hut she only reached the door when the house fell burying herself and the lanai in the ruins. The other chili was pitched into the street, rind was taken to '4r. Bo tprite:-. by Gook, the constable, a hen it ails found lie had receive•. no se. iou, injury. Gook and Westbrook, and as officer of liarlborough-srr.•et, procured some men, who dug out the dead bodies of Mr-. t.lativille mid her infant. While they were enraged in se doing, at gentleman awned Cassainujor, who wits accidt ntally 1: a-sing, and otwerving them in a rilous sit ual tun, under the pat ty•os all, a hi eh was on the p.oot of lalliiis, gave the officers a guinea to procure more flu to prop it up, a hich was immediately dour.  ‘Vetlitesday morning an imiiiis,rion was taken irr rite bed-room of the workinstr..e of the Liberty or the Rolls, in Breant's-builditr,s, Chancery lane, before T.Stirlint, El. Coroner, on the body of %V.Ciiiton. a yosiog man, octweeli ly aid `t:o. it appeared, that on Monday last, the deceased attended toe ionerJl of a pers./11 who commuted suicide in littu4liton-sircet, Clare-market. lie aticrwartts went amongst his acquaintances, told, shasittg bands with them, took his leave, saying, that he door so nething, that when they wt re told they wou!d i.e .t,iirprised at, and they woriliqsce Min no !mar. He then weta home to his mother, who lives in Swaii.yard, %V iiite's•alley, Chaucery-lane, where lie W.lll seized with violent pains and Vollllllll2 ; he laid himself on the bed, and calling his mother, told her, that un his way' home coon the funeral he had purchased a penit worm of arsenic at a chytni.A's shop, which he had eat not or the paper as he walke I alon;. The deceased assittned no cause for the rash act, but the Cheuntit,tices or hgviry attended the itineral above relied, together with the observations of the persons assembled to witness the mullein, which had worked Moor his brain, in a moaner lie could not account tor. Mr. O en, a medical gentleman, in Chancery-lane, attended, and adminis. tered a strong etnet.c, which although it (Iterated eery powerfully, had Fa) effect, the (keened expired in great Jolty about an hour afterwards. Tex J•zry retumeta a verdict—that the deceased pouolicil himself in a fit of dera n4einc  e  • POSlder444o-----