Re Charles Dion, Three Rivers.-Kent & Turcotte, her valedictorian, and she is now the wife of one of Montreal, joint curator, Dec. 14. her fellow students. Mrs. Helmer is the daughter of Re Abraham Lilienthal.-Henry Ward, Montreal, Judge Bradwell of Chicago, and Mrs. Myra Bradwell curator, Dec. 7. who has for more than twenty years edited the Chicago Re Alfred Marchessault.-Millier & Griffith, Sher- Legal News. Mrs. Helmer has a beautiful two-yearbrooke, joint curator. Dec. 15. old daughter. To a jesting inquiry whether this child, Re Damage Martineau.-Millier & Griffith, Sher- who has lawyers for father, mother, grandfather and brooke, joint curator, Dec. 15. grandmother, had yet begun to read for the bar, Mrs. Re Edward McEntyre, Montreal.-J. McD. Hains, Helmer answered, Not yet. She is already a pleader, Montreal, curator, Dec. 14. however, and a very successful one." Re John D. McFarlane, North Star Mine, Buckingham.-J. McD. Hains, Montreal, curator, Dec. 9. Re Pierre H. Renaud.-J. J. Griffith, Sherbrooke, curator, Dec. 15. Dividends. Re Joseph Becotte.-Second and final dividend, payable Dec. 28, Bilodeau & Renaud, Montreal, joint curator. Re Bouchard & Breton, Quebec.-First dividend, payable Jan. 4, 1892, N. Matte, Quebec, curator. Re J. C. Campbell, Montreal.-First dividend, payable Jan. 7, 1892, Kent & Turcotte, Montreal, joint curator. Re F. M. Deschênes & Son, Quebec.-First dividend, payable Jan. 4, 1892, N. Matte, Quebec, curator. Re G. R. Fabre & Fils.-First dividend, payable Dec. 29, J. M. Marcotte, Montreal, curator. Re Jos. Giroux, hardware merchant, Montreal.First dividend, payable Jan. 5, 1892, C. Desmarteau, Montreal, curator. Re Lane & Boissonnault, Quebec.-Second and final dividend, payable Jan. 4, 1892, N. Matte, Quebec, curator. Re Louis Lafond, Montreal.-First and final dividend, payable Jan. 5, W. A. Caldwell, Montreal, curator. Re D & J. Maguire.-Final dividend (1-6 of one per cent.), payable Dec. 30, M. Kennedy, Quebec, curator. Re Bernier, Savard & Pepin, St. Sauveur, Quebec. First and final dividend, payable Jan. 5, 1892, H. A. Bedard, Quebec, curator. Re Ida F. Tenney, Montreal -First and final dividend, on privileged claims only, payable Jan. 5, 1892, A. W. Stevenson, Montreal, curator. Re Wells & Crossley, Montreal. First and final dividend, payable Jan. 5, 1892, W. A. Caldwell, Montreal, curator. Separation as to property. A SCRAMBLE FOR WORK.-What can be in store for the Junior Bar when half-a-dozen readerships at £350 per annum attract 700 applicants ?-Law Times, (London). JUDGE (1891). Your age? LADY WITNESS. Thirty years. JUDGE (incredulously). You will have some difficulty in proving that. LADY WITNESS (excitedly). You'll find it hard to prove the contrary, as the church register that contained the entry of my birth was burned in the year 1815. POLICE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ARRESTS.-A case of public interest occupied His Honour Judge Shand in the Liverpool County Court on October 19, when Mrs. Catherine Whittle sued Detective Jackson,of the Liverpool police force, for damages for false imprisonment. -Mr. Segar, who appeared for the plaintiff, said that on April 7 his client went with her sister to Bunney's shop, in Church Street. She returned by way of Richmond Row, and, after leaving her sister, she was proceeding homewards when she was stopped by Jackson, who asked her if she had been to Bunney's, and, upon her replying in the affirmative, he asked her to show him the contents of her basket and pockets, and she was compelled to allow him to search her. A crowd gathered round her and she felt keenly the indignity of her position. In fact, it gave her such a shock that her health, which was poor at the time, suffered considerably, and eventually a miscarriage was brought on. Mr. Neale, for the defendant, said that he was prepared to acknowledge that there was no imputation against the plaintiff, the action of the defendant being the result of wrong information.-Mr. Segar said that if the defendant would apologise and pay the costs the matter would end.-Mr. Neale said he was not in a position to pay the costs. It was a question of law whether the defendant, being a constable, was justified in the action he had taken.-The jury found for the plaintiff, damages 204., and costs were allowed. PERJURY UNDER DURESS.-The Supreme Court of Mississippi has declared that on indictment for per Emerentienne Blouin vs. Louis Zéphirin Joncas, M. jury on the trial of a criminal case, it is no defence P., Quebec, Dec. 11. Zénaide Poulin, vs. Ovilas alias Avila Duteau, farmer, parish of St. Ephrem d'Upton, Dec. 14. Marie Philomène Emma Roberge vs. Pierre Arthur Pelletier, trader, parish of St. Ferdinand d'Halifax, Dec. 12. GENERAL NOTES. UNTO THE THIRD GENERATION.-The Woman's Journal, of Boston, Mass., says :-" Mrs. Bessie Bradwell Helmer, president of the Association of Collegiate Alumnæ, which has just held its annual meeting in this city, is a graduate of the Union College of Law of Chicago, where the young men of her class elected that defendant was induced to testify falsely by threats against his life, made out of court, and some time before the trial. "The social system would be subverted, and there would be no protection for persons or property, if the fear of man, needlessly and cravenly entertained, should be held to justify or excuse breaches of the criminal laws of the State, and to excuse or justify the crime of perjury:" Bain v. State, 7 So. Rep. 408. BICYCLE LAW IN ENGLAND.-A contributory cause to the injury to the horses of the Dorking coach was the sudden appearance of two bicycles. Here we are on safer legal ground than in the case of barbed wire. The Local Government Act, 1888, s. 85, declares the risk of being unable ever to return to their native country." 'bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes, and other similar machines', to be carriages within the meaning of the Highway Acts (so as to render any person liable to a penalty for cycling furiously), and further enacts that: ATHLETES IN THE LAW COURTS.-The recent trial of (1) Lamps shall be carried by cyclists during the Richardson v. Davis will remind anecdote-mongers of period between one hour after sunset and one hour the old story of the man who was being thrown from before sun rise,' and (2) that 'upon overtaking any cart the gallery of the Theatre Royal, Dublin: "Don't waste or carriage, or any horse, or foot passenger proceeding him,' cried a voice, 'kill a fiddler with him.' Only in along the carriage way,' every cyclist shall within a the case tried before Mr. Justice Grantham the man reasonable distance from and before passing such cart was not thrown with the intent of hurting anybody. or carriage, horse, or other passenger, give audible Plaintiff and his wife went one evening to a music-hall warning' of the approach of the bicycle, &c. If any and seated themselves under a net spread across the accident should result from these statutory require-auditorium; and into this net a gymnast walking on ments being disregarded, we have no reasonable doubt the wire dropped a man whom he was carrying in his that an action would lie against the cyclist disregard- arms. The falling body hit plaintiff on the nose. He ing them at the suit of the party injured; and there is was afterwards very ill and his eyesight was affected. some ground for saying, on the authority of Powell v. The jury gave him 451 damages. It was pleaded for Fall, 49 Law J. Rep. Q. B. 428, that an action would lie, the defence that the plaintiff had been repeatedly even if all the statutory requirements should have warned not to stand up, but that he had persisted in been complied with. - Law Journal. doing so, and had thus been himself a contributor to the accident which befell him. Such an argument Ethically the mere dropping the man into the net was an offence contra bonos mores. The stupid idea was to create an impression among the audience that the man had been accidentally dropped, and consequently to cause alarm. The net was safe enough, no doubt; but had it broken, and the dropped man been killed, would not the wirewalker have been liable to an indictment for manslaughter? It may be granted that to hit a man with a man is occasionally justifiable and even necessary. Turn over Flaxman's wonderful outline illustrations of Homer-he drew them in Rome and got but a guinea apiece for them-and you will find that the heroes of the "Iliad' frequently assaulted each other with each other, although it must have required considerable gymnastic training for a valiant Greek to seize an equally valiant Trojan by one ankle, swing him round, and bang another Trojau with him. Then, again, does not Captain Marryat tell us in 'Peter Simple' how, when the hero and his friend O'Brien escaped from the French prison, they took refuge in ODD NAMES.-The Green Bag has culled the follow- obviously could not hold water. ing from the reports: Cockson v. Cock, Cro. Jac. 125. (Very unfilial.) Gold v. Death, Hobart, 927. (An ancient but futile struggle.) Beak v. Beak, 2 Swand, 627. (A sharp encounter). Slack v. Sharp, 8 Ad. & E. 36. (Can plaintiff recover?). Onions v. Cheese, Lutwyche, 530. (We should think they would disagree). Commonwealth v. 14 Hogs, 10 S. & R. 393. (Mean! Take one of your size). Succession of Beer, 12 La. Ann. 698. liquidation?) (Estate in Gullett v. Gullett, 25 Ind. 337. (Naturally follows "Succession of Beer.") Funk v. Venus & Ex'rs of Venus, 3 Pa: (We have heard of her, but never of them). Shirtz v. Shirtz, 5 Watts, 255. (This encounter was to be expected). Beer v. Hooper, 32 Miss. 246. (Defendant can restrain plaintiff). 651 Chests of Tea v. United States, 1 Paine 499. (The the branches of a tree in the Forest of Ardennes, and, worm will turn; was this the Boston Tea?) PERSONAL APPEALS BY NATIVES OF INDIA TO THE QUEEN.-In consequence of natives of India having frequently come to England to make personal appeals to her Majesty against the decision of Indian tribunals, the Government of India has issued the following notification: "Whereas much inconvenience has from time to time been caused by the poverty and distress of Indian litigants who have proceeded to England under the impression that their cases will receive the consideration of Her Majesty, the Queen-Empress, it is hereby notified for general information that appeals from the decision of the Indian Courts do not lie in England, except the ordinary appeals to the Privy Council, which are provided for in the Acts of the Governor-General in Council regulating civil procedure, and that no petitioners other than appellants to the Privy Council prosecuting their appeals according to the prescribed rules will obtain any hearing in England from Her Majesty. Petitioners who proceed to England merely waste their money and expose themselves to great inconvenience and hardships, with an inquisitive gendarme happening to be standingunder SOLICITORS AND TOUTS. -Employing 'touts' to bring busines to solicitors is so derogatory to the dignity of the profession that the publicity recently given to a case heard at the Brompton County Court, and reported in our last issue, will. we trust, have the effect of checking, if not stamping out, this objectionable practice. Ignorant persons who sustain, or claim to have sustained, injuries in railway or omnibus accidents are the most common victims of the system: and many cases which would probably be settled out of Court, if in other hands, result in costly and vexatious litigation. The most effective remedy is, after all, a sound and healthy professional opinion, and the Incorporated Law Society have a great responsibility in seeing that this is cultivated.-Law Journal, (London). |