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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
169 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 9
Judgment was given in this case. His Honor sold that the questions to be decided were, first, whether the alleged contract had existed between the parties, and second, whether there had been any release. He took it that the moment the plaintiff's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This oourfe opened yesterday before the District Judge. Several of the postponed cases were struck off the list, through non-appearance or want of service. CHRISTIAN V. CONNELLY…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for trespass. The declaration alleged trespasses by cattle, by destruction offences, and by the removal of large quantities of wood. Damages were laid at £500. The defendant pleaded—first, that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The application for a new trial of this case was refused. HUGHES V. EALES. Counsel addressed the Court at some length. A verdict for the plaintiff was given; damages £8 and costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Honor delivered judgment in this case. Referring to the circumstances disclosed in the evidence, he expressed the opinion that there had been apparently a combination and stroggle to defeat the process of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Thomas Byrnes was fined £1 for being drunk on the 15th instant. BREACH OF TOWNS POLICE ACT.—John Bowen, for a breach of the 23rd section of the Towns Police Act, by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was an action for libel, by Michael Hyam, an innkeeper, resident at Shealhaven, against George Underwood Alley (better known as Dr. Alley), a resident in the same neighbourhood. The libel declared…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This was an action upon a contract. The defenlant was the contractor for the construction of the Northern Electric Telegraph. Having had some conversation with the plaintiff on the subject of the execution of a portion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We mentioned in our last issue that a report had reached Drayton that a Chinaman had been found in a water-hole at Canal Creek, under circumstances which led to the belief that he had been murdered. We are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VIOLENT ASSAULT.—Michael Dalton was brought before the bench, charged with violently assaulting his wife Ellen Dalton, on Sunday, the 20th instant, at Ne[?]field. From the evidence of complainant, it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →From a distance of five miles from the Preston City toll-gate, through Preston City, over the hill on the road to North Stonington and into the borders of the latter town, from eleven o'clock at night until four in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following are the cases set down for hearing at the Court to be holden on Friday, the 2nd of December: —Moora v. Bogg[?]; Hoath v. Sutton; executors of the late Nathan Joseph v. Tierney; M'Gowan v. the stewards…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The trial of this case commenced on Friday, before Mr. J[?]stice Dickinson, and was, by consent, resumed and co[?]d before the Chief Justice. The action wa[?] one for breach of an agreement for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have received from our correspondent fuller particulars than appeared in the Herald of 18th November. A most cold-blooded and brutal murder was perpetrated at a station named Pollick Kawarrana, on the Mole, Lower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Court opened at ten o'olock on Monday, the 21st November. June Goode, charged with forging a bank cheque for £7, at fortitude Valley, on the 9th May, was convicted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Doughboy, an aboriginal, was charged for that he did, on the 21th of April, 1850, at Bullingar River, feloniously kill and murder one Daniel Page. The case for the Crown was conducted by the Attorney General, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an action for £11 2s. 7d., goods sold and delivered. Verdict for the plaintiff by default. HOATH V. SUTTON. An action for goods sold and delivered; amount…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DRUNKENNESS.—Richard White for being drunk on the 5th instant, was admonished and discharged. ENCLOSED LANDS ACT.—Bernard M'Cosker, the younger, was charged by William John Hawthorne with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THURSDAY, DEC. 6.—(Before Mr. Justice Milford.) The trial of Doughboy, an aboriginal, for the murder of Daniel Page, at the Bellinger River, on the 25th April, 1850, was resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the 5th October, says a despatch from Modena Count Anvil, late President of the Military Commision of the Duchy of Parma, was discovered to have arrived at Parma in di[?]guise by the [?]ol[?]gna Road, Antni had…
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