To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times.
TOWXS V. GARDENS. Sir, —This was an action brought in the Mitre Court, against one Joseph Gardens, under the Vagrant Act. It appeared that Joseph Gardens (lie defendant, refused to maintain Richard Fowls, whereby the said Richard Fowls became chargeable on the parish. ..Joseph Gardens being called on for his defence, obstinately persisted in saying*that the plaintiff ought to make out a case, and wound up by saying, that not having done so, plaintiff ought to be nonsuited. The Court was assisted by two legal gentlemen, who,however, being rather " out of practice," said that they did not understand what was meant by a non-suit. They then quoted a great number of oases to show, that by the lavr of England, Gardens ought to support Fowls, and, accordingly, the Court, after observing that this was undoubtedly a fowl case, sentenced the defendant to a month's imprisonment. Your obedient servant, Dux.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 303, 26 September 1855, Page 5
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