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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
247 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 13
This was a motion for new trial in a squatting case (wherein defendant had obtained a verdict) which had been partially argued on a previous day, the main ground being that the verdict was against evidence. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOSEPH ONUS v. GEO SYLVESTER.—This was an action brought to recover the price of a horse said to be in defendant's possession, and which he refused to deliver to the plaintiff. Several witnesses were examined in support of the plaintiff's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Darvall, Q C., moved the admission as an attorney, solicitor, and proctor of the Supreme Court of Mr. Randolph Charles [?]ant, M.A., of Sydney University who has served under articles of clerkship to his father,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock, on Tuesday, the 14th January, 1862, from persons willing to contract for the erection of a Court-house and alterations for Watch-house, at Murrurundi…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Honor gave judgment in this case as follows:— This is an application made by a creditor of the insolvent under the 7th section of the Insolvent Act that a certain past-[?]aptial settlement made by the insolvent on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—Daniel Young, charged with being drunk between 12 and 1 o'clock a.m. this morning, was flued [?] or 24 hours' imprisonment. PUBLICANS' BOOTHS AT RACES.—The following special…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an appeal from a decision by the Primary Judge in Equity, pronounced on the 28th September last, and reported in extenso in the Herald of the following day. The material question was whether the sheriff had properly seized, and sold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Collins was placed at the bar. The prisoner is a powerful looking man, and apparently about thirty-five years of age. To the charge of killing and murdering, with malice aforethought, William Alexander, on the 1st November last, the…
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