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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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The hearing of this case was resumed this morning. It was an action for trespass and assault brought by Thomas Logan, a farmer, residing near Raymond Terrace, against Joseph Russell, farmer, Raymond Terrace. Damages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In recording the decease of the above-named gentleman, we acknowledge our inability to give expression to the deep feeling of sorrow that has been evinced throughout this district in consequence of the lamented…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was an action for goods sold and delivered, &c., by Edward Pugh, tailor, of Sydney, against Enoch Cobcroft, of Maitland, formerly lieutenant (now captain) of the East Maitland and Morpeth Volunteer Rifles. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of this case was resumed and concluded. It commenced on Tuesday, and lasted the whole of Wednesday and Thursday. The action was one of trespass. The alleged trespass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This case was commenced on Thursday afternoon, continned on Monday, and conoluded on Tuesday. Mr. Foster and Mr. Simpson, instructed by Mr. Mullen, for the plaintiff; Mr. Windeyer, instructed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DRUNKENNESS.—William Johns pleaded guilty to being drunk on the 13th instant, and was admonished and discharged. Henry Houstin, for being drunk on the 15th instant,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The February sittings of this Court will be held on Tuesday, the 28th instant. The following cuses are entered for hearing:— REMANETS —Jordan v. Alcorn; Robinson v…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was a new trial in pursuance of an order of the Supreme Court. The plaintiff sued defendant in trover and detinue for recovery of a horse. The case was tried at the November sittings of 1862, and a verdict given by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Present—Lord Kingsdown, Lord Justice Knight Bruce Sir J. T. Coleridge. This was an appeal from a Decree of the Supreme Court reversing a Decree of his Honor Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an action to recover the amount of £33 for hay sold by George Hain, of Narrowgut, to Abel Whitehead, of Morpeth. Defendant pleaded not indebted, and paid into court £9 14s. 6d. as full satisfaction of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial of this case was resumed and concluded. It was an action for trespass upon a run called Shannon Vale, in the New England district, to which the defendants had paid £50 into court. The question, therefore,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Stephen, for defendant, applied for a postponement, upon the ground that the floods in the neighbourhood of defendant's residence had prevented him from coming to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OBSCENE LANGUAGE—Hannah Woody was fined 20s., in default seven days' imprisonment, for making use of obscene language on the 27th ult. LARCENY.—Patrick Gordon, an old infirm man, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquest was held upon the body of James Lowrie on the 20th instant, by Mr. John Cockburn, coroner for the police district of Coonabarabran, at Old Yaminbah, a station belonging to Mr. Ebenezer Orr, of Garrawilla…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MILLER V. SPOT.—The plaintiff sued defendant for abusive and violent language. It would appear that the ladies in question had some words about the sending of a valentine, which ended in the present charge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. M. H Stephen, for defendant, moved for a rule nisi for new trial. The action was one for trespass, by entry of plaintiff's premises at Grafton, and seizure of his goods. A verdict had been found for plaintiff, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The trial in this case, which commenced on Friday, was resumed and concluded. It was an action of slander, in wbich Elizabeth Hamilton, a minor, by John Hamilton, her next, friend, sued…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This was a motion for a new trial, which had been partially argued in the December term of last year. The argument was resumed and concluded. The Solicitor-General and Sir William Manning, Q.C.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INDECENCY.—Mary Murphy was brought before the bench on this charge. Senior-sergeant Thorpe deposed: On the evening of the 4th instant, about eight o'olock, when on duty in George-street, I heard a woman make…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This was a demurrer to a plea in action for money had and received the defendant had pleaded, among other things (under Games and Wages Act 14, Victoria No. 9, section 8), that the amount sued for had been…
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