Court Of Common Pleas, Sa...
Itl1s WaS an action of replevin, in whiccti a .udgment by waver had been taken against thie defendants, and had been afterwardo fol- lowed u1p by outlawry, Mlr. Sergeant 11rZTWsE Moved to set aside the outlawrv en two grounds.of whlichi thie first was, that a% the defendants vere women they could not be legally made the subjects of outlawrv ; and the second, that thie sheriff, in whose custody they now were, hiad made a return of non est intventuts to all the writs directed to him to sum- mon the defendants. TheLoRD CHIEF JusricE.-lbegyour pardon, brother Wilda; but my attention was suddenly called to something else. Did you say that the tvro defendants ivere attornies ? MYr. Sergeant WtLDE.-No, my Lord; they are women, not at- tornies. The LORD CzriEF JUST ICE.-Oh ! then th1e returns are as great a violation of good law as of good Latin. The Sheriff certainly can- not justif vhis return of non est iuventus for two women. You may take a rule. POCOCK V. BILLIN.G This was an action on a bill of exchange, tried before Lord Cif- ford at Guiidhall, at thle sittings after last ffilary Term. The 1o- fence was, that the bill had been improperly passed into the hands of thle plaintiFf, and the jury, after somc consileration, found a verdict for the defendaoL A motion had since been -nade to set aside that verdlict, on the ground that evidence of a conversation aff cting the plaintiff, but at which he had not been present, had been impro- )erly admitted. Causc was now shown arainst the rule, but the Court, without expressing any opinion on the point, made the rule for a new trial absolute.- COURT OF COMAMON PLEAS. SATUTRDAY. JLtr.y 3. JAMES V. JENKINS AND ANOTHZER.