Summer Assizes.
LIV iL ;IDE.-B'rorc 1r-. lastive BURROUcG. '1'his wvas an action in case, against tl,ede'endant lor tnaliciouF)v injuring a picture, the property of' the plairtiff' Plea, ' not I." The plaintiff is an attorney, and the defendant a tradesman both residing at Southend. The picture, which was the subject of the action, was an oil painting of a horse, upon which the plaintifr set great value. It appeared that the plaintiff havine, in his charac- ter of attorney suet *the defendant upon a bili of cxchange, a (day was a ppointed for the !atter to mrieet at the office of the former to psy the mtoney. The defendan't depuutd his wife to pay tie money, and ashe went, in comripany with a Milr.. Cobold, t3 the plhintiff`s house for thiat purpose. W-hen she got there. she found the pzindtfF from home. She seemed angry at the ;reach of the plaintiff's appointments and broke out into some passionate expressions. A femnae servant who attended the door, invited hier to sit down in the parlour, and told her that the plaintiff war m the neighbourhood, mentioned where he was, and said that he should be sent tor. Mr. Cobbold then went to look for the plaintiff: In the interval the defendant's wife remained in thze parlour. arid, as 'was alleged, maliciously injured the picture in question, wbich hung up in the room. The principal witness tO support the c.Lse was the plaintiff's female servant, who deposed that whilst Mrs. Stringfellow was in the parlour, she heard her walk about the room, go to a table drawer in which was a knife-steel, and then miake a rumbbhng naise as if a picture was moving on its peg against the wainscot. Before Al rs. Stringfellow came to the house, the witness was quite sure her master'> picure was unhijured; but as soon as Mrs. Stringfellow went awav, shc ob- served thle horse's eyes had been poked out with &ome such instru- titent as a steel, there being two small holes punctured in the can- vass. Mrs. StringieLeow was altogether in the room for about teM minutes. On her cross-examitiation, she admitted that sbe had been a witiess on two firmer occasiotus for her master; once in Lon- don, and another time at the assizes. There was a peep-hole in the wainscot oi the roomn. but she did not look through it. Was quite certain that the picture was cafe betbre AMrs. Stringftllow went into tiie room, atnd that it was injured when slie left. The picture was exhibited in Court, but it was any thinr bu-t A masterpiece. The utmost value set upon it was 6L., but it waS ib- viously worth no such money. No objection was taken t the fortl of the action, but The Jary foutid a verdlict for the defendant. SUl;3MER .4SSIZES. CHELMSFORD, NVEDNESD.AY. AUG. 4. BELLEX V. STRINGFELLOW AND WVIWr