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Newspaper
Evening Herald
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 21, 1865
Page
7
Detailed summaries of proceedings across the Court of Chancery and the Court of Queen's Bench including Simpson v South Staffordshire Waterworks Company and In re the South Kensington Books Company. Proceedings cover appeals, injunctions, contempt motions, and various trials with solicitor lists and judge remarks.
In the Evening Herald dated April 21 1865 a courtroom exchange unfolds over whether a marriage in Scotland is valid. Lords discuss granting and later making absolute a rule nisi with the aim of entering a verdict for the plaintiff for 157.
A Cardiff trial reports damages against The Great Western Railway and related cases. Claims include delay missing mail train due to unclear Cardiff start time, an 1863 portmanteau loss in Machynlleth, and dismissal damages in a Kent to Wales employment, with rulings on contract, liability for missing luggage, and insufficient proof of knowledge for liability in a car collision.
In April session at the Court of Exchequer Lord Chief Baron Poulace and Barons consider a rule to show cause for a new trial in Dunkebly and another v Johnson and others. Plaintiffs claim 70002 pounds for misdirected trial, improper evidence, and blockade- era loss of Georgiana cargo. defendants alleged to have arranged transport from Liverpool to Nassau and onward. The matter pivots on contract proof and a disputed Scotch marriage issue in Acford v Lord Huntingtower.
Bankruptcy court proceedings report examinations and discharges for multiple filers. W Bradley’s failure shows total liabilities around 45,763 with 69,741 claimed unsecured and assets uncertain. discharge granted. Pelachi and Vincent, merchants of 38 Broad Street, receive unopposed discharge. John Stratton, formerly with Worthington and Co. and linked to Sankey Brook Colliery, shows 28,723 debt with assets in Chancery valued at 23,000, enough to pay creditors. adjourned for asset details. A Jewin Street diesinker and lithographer seeks discharge with debts 368 and assets 357 10s. examination passed.
John Fraser Walker, a solicitor, was brought before Alderman Phillips for failing to pay a cab fare. The case resulted in Walker paying the claim and costs or facing imprisonment. In Bow Street, James Wall and John Hurley were charged with assaulting Italian-born Edward Perazzoli and damaging his glass frill in Drury Lane. Witnesses described a chaotic scene with the two prisoners resisting police and several bystanders corroborating parts of the incident. Both prisoners appeared intoxicated and offered varying accounts of the events.
Sir Thomas Henry sets a stern sentence for the offenders. He rules drunkenness cannot excuse the series of outrages and commits them for one month. A 63 pound sum is ordered to be paid to Parazzli from the poor box to compensate for the loss of the frill.
Hugh Bullock and Timothy Grady faced charges for violently assaulting Richard Mogford a Grenadier Guardsman and Bullock for assaulting a constable in Westminster Castle Lane. The incident occurred near the Pine Apple as a row dispersed. constables were injured and several soldiers involved. Both prisoners remanded with bail accepted.
A prisoner ordered removal of horses and goods from Mr Amory’s premises overnight. On the following morning armed men took items to a new district. The accused denied direct involvement though documents and witness statements linked him to debts and ownership. Proceedings include examination of the bankrupted estate and assurances about future actions. The magistrate remanded the prisoner to await further arrangements, including a written safety letter.
Markets at Co Birmingham Burton on Trent Bury St Edmunds Mansfield show wheat prices ranging from 40s to 45s per 36 stone with variations for fine and malting wheats. Barley for malting 31s to 32s. oats 21s to 26s. beans and peas quoted with shifts. Secondary wheat and oaten goods noted with weekly average tallies and slight price changes.
Maritime notices show ships arriving and sailing from Havannah Malaga and Quebec with cargos and routes. Births and multiple marriages listed from London area churches, naming Birkbeck Jolliffe Bramley Moore Jordan Busfeild Harris Collins Bischoff Donne Atkins Langton Williams Axton and others. Deaths noted for Cording and Leete with society items on bankruptcy and forgeries cases and local inquiries.
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