Civil Cases.—Bossiter y Mem, £45 17e 6d. Mr Harper for plaintiff, Mr Joyce for defendant. The claim was for rente of butcher's shop and slaughterhouse and paddooke, which were let under long leases to defendant and his wife, payment of rent being secured on the personal estate of the wife. -{Che payments haying got into arrear, distraint was made, hut, defendant being bankrupt, there was no return. -The present action was bipught to bring the wife into' Court and re hfcover from her estate. Mr Joyce said there were sereral causes which would put plaintiff

out of Court. He would rely, however, on the fact that on 31st May, 1879, defendant and his wife jointly made an assignment of their property in favour of the creditors of the husband's estate. This he thought sufficient to entitle him to a nonsuit. Mr Harper said the real object of the suit was to recover possession of th» property, and that having elicited an intimation of the course de fendant intended to take, he would now accept a nonsuit. Plaintiff nonsuited accordingly. Judgments for plaintiffs were given in Wilson v Williams, £25, and Parsons v Moasman, £18 4» Id. Judgment went by default in McLean V Johnson, £20 18a 8d ; Coward v Walker, £39 1,3s 6d; Harewood Boad Threshing Company v Foder, £19 16s ; Prins and Ellis v Gosling, £52 10s ; and Anderson t Gregor, £59 14s lid. Hutchinsoh's Trustees v Monk was adjourned till August 18th.
