1884.] LEGAL. 159 



the £'1500 at once, or -whether she should have the sums applied 

 so as to receive about the same income as the larch plantations had 

 lately yielded, or whether she should only have the yearly income 

 from the above sums invested. The Court decided that the trustees 

 must expend as much as was necessary in renewing the plantations, 

 and in keeping them as such, and that the remainder of the £4500 

 and of the £1500, after such expenditure, must be invested and the 

 income paid to the tenant for life. 



Alleged Pollution of the PiIver Tay. — Sir Eobert Drummond 

 Moncrieffe, of IMoncrieffe, Perth, has raised an action against the 

 Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the fair city of Perth, to 

 prevent them sending sewage, refuse from dye works, and other 

 offensive matters into the river Tay, thereby polluting the stream 

 and deteriorating his property. The main pleas of the defenders 

 are that the Tay is a navigalile river not under the Pivers Prevention 

 Act of 1876 ; discharge of the town sewage into the river for more 

 than forty years ; that the pursuer has been himself a promoter of a 

 new dyeing establishment ; and that he failed to object to the City 

 Sewage Works when they were being erected. The case has been 

 sent to the Procedure Poll. 



Highway Enceoachment in Cheshire. — On Thursday, November 

 6th, Mr. Langley, the tenant of Grange Farm, on the estate of the 

 Earl of Shrewsbury, was summoned before the County Magistrates' 

 Court at Birkenhead, under the 118th section of the 3rd George IV. 

 c. 26, for encroaching on the high road at Thornton Hough, bj' 

 fencing in a strip of greensward 117 yards 2 feet in length, consti- 

 tuting between a c^uarter and half an acre, and extending to within 

 fifteen feet of the centre of the metalled part of the road, which 

 was twenty feet wide. Several witnesses were called to prove tliat 

 this particular piece of laud, which had been fenced in by tlie 

 defendant, had been open to the turnpike road from 1832 up to the 

 present time. The Court found that the encroachment was on a 

 liighway, and gave judgment against the defendant, who was really 

 the Earl of Shrewsbury — ordering him to paj' a fine of 10s. and 

 costs. A case on the question of law was applied for, but i-efused, 

 though defendant's agent is to apply for a rule to compel the 

 magistrates to grant a case. 



We understand that Spratts Patent have received a Prize Medal at the 

 International Health Exliibition, 1884, being the highest and only award for 

 their class of goods. 



