Court Of Chancery, Friday...
LA IRRPORT. This case was only worthy of notice for being an example of the extraordinary eagerness for litigation,.which obscures even the sense of self-interest in somne folks. The object of contention is a piece of moor-land, in Lancashire 4 feet by 10, upon which the gable-end of a cottage stands. The Attorney-tGereral claims it as part of the trust of a cbarity to which the contiguous land is appro- priated. There have been original bill and answer-trial at law and argument-new learing in Chaiicery-new trial and new srgu- ment-and the present procecdings arc in another heariy,g in equity- for another new trial; the whole aided and nicely shaded and ob- scured by evidelnce of every kind, written and oral, positive and con- jectural, tlirect and traditional, respecting the wall and the building- the nature of the land, whether virgin earth or manured-added or original-on a slope or on a level, anid so forth. The LouD CHANCELLOR observed upon the taste for law which had prevailed in urging on the case. The rent of the land was 6s., which, taken at 50 years' purchase, would pYa half the fees of this morning. At an inproved rent, computed at 41. a-year, 2001., perhaps thc amount would defray one.tentb of the costS of the suit. His Lordship's stntement was too modestly calculated, if the ru- mour among the professional people he correct, that the entire ex- penses, including suits of law and equity, have already reached the sum of 7.tH.lL ------- qap- vlc>?-'.r 'Dr DIx.--lTonxx'v- II- 11 I - ATTORNUY-GEIrI.AL V. THRELFALL.