Court Of Common Pleas, We...
This was an action to recover tbe value of some copper which had been furnished by illem to a ship called thc Asia, of which ibe de- fendant5 t7ere the registered owncrs. The plaintiffs were copper- merdcants residing at Inimehouse, and the (lefendants bankers at Newcastle.umoaTyne. The ship oiginally belonged to a person of the name of Bulmer, who having obtained some pecuniarv advances from the defendanta, placed the register and title-deeds of the vesset in their hands. It was while thesc documents t-ere in the defendants' sscaseion that the copper wvats furnished to the vessel by order ot Bulmner, wYho continued int her eommand, and the bill was in the firs instance delivered to hirn. It was contended on the part of the de fendfants,that the credit had been g~iven to Buher, and not to them The Jury found a verdict for'theidefendants. COURT OF COMMON PLBAS. WrnDNESDAY. DEC. 22. C.rl, V. vv21T -s SD