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Newspaper
True Sun
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 01, 1837
Page
1
The text recounts officials debating who should finance local paving and lighting under an Act of Parliament, and describes the condemned sermon at Newgate for Greenacre. The Ordinary urges sincere repentance, while Greenacre defends himself, denying premeditated murder and appealing for press fairness.
In a Chancery application Mrs. Parker seeks to set aside a receiver order over disputed pre vesting share distributions, but no evidence proves any estate apportiment. The Lord Chancellor dismisses the application with costs. The bail court hears a riot indictment transfer question and grants a writ of certiorari for transfer. Poor Law Commission case seeks certiorari to review Mile End New Town union orders and guardians board, with Justice Wathame urging full court consideration.
An Exchequer case concerns a suit to recover 60 24s for breeches garters and related goods furnished by a tailor. The plaintiff claimed necessaries. defense evidence showed substantial prior supplies from a London and Oxford tailor. Judges weighed whether breeches and hunting pants were necessary for the defendant, noting infant apparel context and potential returns or alterations.
In Consiseora Court a divorce suit by Mrs. Louisa Walker against her husband, Mr. Walker, concluded with the judge accepting proof of her adultery claim while discrediting the husband’s key witnesses as perjury. The court decreed a divorce against Mr. Walker.
Wary Smith alias Wilson, a repeatedly imprisoned fraudster, posed as a widow of a wrecked captain to obtain signatures and a recommendation. She was exposed by Miss Thropp and handed to the Mendicely Society, then discharged after a cautionary display.
Forty two residents of Ely-reots Tulbert and others were summoned on Saturday by the Lower Liberty of Saffeon-ti to show cause why they refused to pay the payarg tote. Mr James argued they were taxed to pay as Els-rents was once a private mansion.
William Smith of Sudderton Lincolnshire reported two sharpers known as magsmen robbed him after a dinner at a public house. A well dressed man and a fashionably dressed companion lured him aboard a river crossing, where a 1500 pounds pocket book was shown and twenty sovereigns stolen while he was intoxicated. He left with nothing to fund his voyage to New York.
A Saturday inquest at the Burlington Hotel Cork Street Dublin investigated the death of Count Mate Alberg Schulenberg a Prussian officer of high rank who died after falling from his hotel room window. Witnesses including Sir Augustus D Este and Dr Moore described his nervous illness, a fatal decline, and injuries from the fall with a verdict of death by misadventure amid his deranged state.
An analysis of how members of clubs may bear liability for club debts. The piece discusses Delauney v Strickland and Flemyng v Heath and Adams v Rippon, noting that individual club members are not ordinarily personally liable for debts incurred by a club’s committee, unless the members acted as partners or undertook authority to bind the group. It contrasts club liability with that of trading partnerships where one partner can bind the firm. Also cites the Westminster Reform Club and the court’s view that members as individuals are not liable for club debts merely by being members.
The judge weighs principal and agent issues over a club committee's authority to bind members. He notes subscription funds, ready cash requirements, and the lack of credit intent in the club's written rules. The ruling favors nonsuit, arguing no evidence shows committee credit or member liability beyond stated terms.
A critical sketch traces Andrew Jackson born 1767 in the Warsaw settlement near Camden to Irish émigré parents. It covers his schooling, early military service, legal training in Salisbury, Tennessee politics, Indian campaigns, New Orleans victory, governorship of Florida, and rise to the presidency. The piece notes his tall thin figure, familiar manners, widowhood of his wife, and rumors about his health and impending death.
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