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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
169 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 9
Mr. Gordon moved, on behalf of the Rev. Dr. Lang, one of the defendants in this suit, to suspend the injunction granted last week restraining the reverend defendant from preaching in the Scots' Church,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Upon the motion of Mr. Butler, leave was granted to appeal to the Privy Council in each of the above cases against the judgment of the Court. From Beirs Life in Sydney we learn that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THREATENING LANGUAGE.—John Sawyer was brought before the bench, charged with using threatening language towards his wife, Murgeret Sawyer. From the evidence of complainant it appeared that on the 22nd…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The argument on the new trial motion herein was resumed, and lasted the whole day without terminating. Mr. Broadhurst, Q.C., Mr. Wise, and Mr. Dangar, appeared in support of the motion; and Mr. Martin, Q.C.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Honor gave judgment in this case, as follows:- This is a suit for the partition of the Duok-hole Estate, purchased by the plaintiff and defendants, E. H. Hickey and A. Hickey, in January, 1847, each of them…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The argument in this case (reported in our yesterday's issue) was concluded, and the Court reserved judgment. BALDWIN V. MORGAN…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a motion, by rule nisi, for a mandamus to compel the justices at Scone to hear the application of William Irving Gardiner, for the transfer to him of a publican's license…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(Before J. C. S. M'Douall and James Rigney, Esqrs.) DRUNKENNESS.—Eliza Duffy was fined £1 for being drunk on the 28th Oatober. John Liddy, for the same offence, was admonished and discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Court intimated that in this notion, in which a verdict for the plaintiff had been given with £2150, damages, the new trial would be refused. Their Honors' written judgment was not yet complete…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is the list of cases for hearing at the District Court, East Maitland, to be held on Friday, the 11th instant:- Cases postponed from the last sitting:—Rourke v. Cantwell;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the [?]age against Bernard Keogh, committed on a charge of larceny under the [?] Ba[?]ee Act, the Crown Prosecutor stated that he had not been able to obtain any information respecting an important witness, whose absence at the last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an notion for breach of agreement, referred from the Supreme Court. (The plaintiff was Richard Butcher adn the defendants were Samuel and Henry Priestley. The declaration set forth that the plaintiff had sold to the defendauts [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for libel. The declaration contained two counts. The first count averred that the plaintiff, being the surgeon and medical officer of the Maitland Hospital, the defendant falsely and maliciously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We briefly stated in our last that information had been give to the police stationed at Binda, that a settler named Thomas Monks, about sixty years of age, residing at Phil's River, some nine miles from Binda, had been killed by his wife, Elles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Honor gave judgment in this case. In transactions concerning a principal and an agent, where the agent told and disclosed his principal, and the contract went on as before, the agent was exonerated; but where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for slander, in which the defendant had pleaded not guilty. Mr. Isaacs and Mr. Norton appeared for the plaintiff. The defendant (the Rev. Dr. Leng) appeared in person…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BREACH OF THE TOWNS POLICE ACT.—George Tumley was fined 5s. and costs for committing a breach of the 23rd section of this Act, by allowing a number of pigs to stray in George-street, Singleton, on the 9th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Honor said that he was not prepared to nonsuit on the merits of the case; and with regard to the technicallty of want of proper proof of the warrant, he was desirous that the parties would make a settlement between themselves. As a general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This court opens on Monday, at[?]ten a.m. The following in the list of causes:- POSTPONED FROM LAST SITTINGS.-Clift v. Walsh and Carter; Wholohan v. Jones: Small v. Cunningham; Else v. Oakes;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Queen and Prince Consort, with the younger branches of the royal family, left Osborne for the Scottish Highlands on the 29th of August. They arrived at Balmoral on the 31st, having stayed a night at…
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