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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
206 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 11
This was an action against the Railway Commissioners, for removing fallen timber from plaintiffs ground. Mr. Fa[?]cett appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Stephen for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was a motion upon notice for a peremptory order upon the respondent to comply strictly with an order of Mr. Justice [?]ilford as to the deliveiy of certain bills of cost for taxation, and tho rendering of an account of all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The plaintiffs claimed damages for the running down of their schooner Liberty by the steamer Paterson, on the 20th March last. The schooner was lying at anchor, ready for sea, about seventy yards from Bethel Wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a demurrer to a plea in action upon a promissory note. The declaration averred, in the usual mode, the making of this note, and its non-payment. The plea forming the subject matter of this demurrer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Moreton Bay Courier of the 30th June reports the following:- A very extraordinary, and we believe an almost unprecedented, scene took place in the Supreme Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John Small, charged with maliciously maiming a bay mare, the property of Michael M'Donald, was found guilty, and fined £2; in default, two months' hard latour,—Peter Grey, charged with maliaiously maiming…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CATTLE STEALING.—James Cavanagh, on remand, was brought before the bench charged with driving a bullock, the property of J. W. W. Campbell. The prosecutor deposed that on the 29th of June last, between twelve and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an application for on injunction to restrain defendant from lighting the streets of Maitland with gas unless in conjunction with plaintiff as a partner. Mr. Gordon appeared for the plaintiff, and Sir William…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MASTERS AND SERVANTS ACT.—Edwin Smi[?]hers, brickmaker, was summoned by Charles Chester, labourer, for £2 15s., balance of wages. From the evidence, it appeared that Chester was hired hy written agreement to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Honor gave judgment in this case, dismissing, with costs, the application for an injunction to restrain defendant from proceedin[?] with the enterprise of lighting [?] and West Maitland with gas, except in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CATTLE STEALING.—James Ca[?]anagh, on remand, was again brought before the bench, charged with feloniously driving a bullock, the property Mr. J. W. W. Campbell. Mr. Briggs appeared for the defendant. The depositions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charles Wright, alias Kimboo, a Chinaman, was placed at the bar, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of one Garrick Burns, at Clifton, on the 24th of June last. Roderick M'Leod deposed he was an overseer on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is the decision of his Honor the Primary Judge in this case, as delivered last Friday:- I see nothing in the agreement itself either of ambignity or unreasonableness. It is not merely an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DUUNKENNESS.—Matthew Lynch was fined £1 for having been drunk on the 20th instant. Matthew M'Crowe, for the same offence, was fined 10s. VAGRANT ACT.—John Fleming was charged with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DRUNKENNESS.—Henry Pascoe, carpenter, residing in Scone, was this morning convicted of the above offence, for which he was fined 10s, or twenty-four hours in the cells…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to appoint. George Warburton, Esq., to be registrar of the District Court at Mudgee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OBTAINING GOODS UNDER, FALSE PRETENCES.—James Green, on remand, was brought before the bench, charged with this offence. William Carby Thompson deposed that the defendant came to his stores, on or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Before the full Court. Their Honors gave judgment separately in this case, as follows:- Chief Justice DICKINSON: This case came before the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ann Wheeler was indicted for the murder of a certain male child, at Mount Hunter Creek, near Camden, on the 23rd June. The prisoner was a married woman; on the 22nd or 23rd June, she gave birth to a child, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The nature of this suit was very briefly stated yesterday. The late Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass, of Eagleton, on the River Williams, New South Wales, by his will, dated March 6, 1850, devised a piece of land fronting…
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