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asked defendant for a check on his 

 banker, but defendant said his 

 hand shook, as he had not break- 

 fasted. Witness offered to give him 

 breakfast, but he said he would 

 prefer going home ; but told wit- 

 ness he might tell plaintiff that he 

 should that day have a check on 

 defendant's bankers, but the check 

 never came. 



Mr. Lawes, for defendant, said, 

 that his brief was only at the be- 

 ginning of the trial put into his 

 hand ; that he could not resist 

 plaintiff's case. He was instructed 

 that the picture was not worth any 

 thing like 1,500/. 



Lord Ellenborough, in his charge 

 to the jury, said, that persons 

 making a bargain must abide by 

 it, unless it were fraudulent. He, 

 as being an illiterate man on such 

 subjects, might think that no pic- 

 ture was worth 1,500/.; but that 

 had nothing to do with the case be- 

 fore the jury. It had been proved 

 that the defendant had agreed to 

 give 1,500/. and he must abide by 

 it. Verdict for plaintiff— Damages 

 1,500/. 



Court of Chancery, Tuesday, 

 Dec. l-t. — Before the Lord Chan- 

 cellor — Picture Dealing;. — G. P. 

 Turner v. Beazly. — This litigation 

 arose from certain dealings in pic- 

 tures between the plaintiff and de- 

 fendant. Sir Gregory Page Tur- 

 ner, a young man of great fortune, 

 being desirous of acquiring a cha- 

 racter for taste in painting, pur- 

 chased the pictures in question for 

 about 12,0(X)/. Having discover- 

 ed that the defendant had pur- 

 chased these pictures, but a short 

 time before, for less than half the 

 above tum, sir Gregory refused to 



pay ; and au action at law was com- 

 menced, to restrain the proceed- 

 ings in which action, sir Gregory 

 filed his injunction bill in Chancery. 

 To this bill there was a demurrer, 

 which was over-ruled, and the de- 

 fendant was ordered to answer. 

 The answer being put in, a motioa 

 was made for leave to amend the 

 bill, but without success. The 

 cause now came on to be heard 

 upon motion for dissolving the 

 injunction upon the merits dis- 

 closed in the answer. 



Mr. Richards and sir S. Romilly 

 for plaintiff, Messrs. Hart and 

 Wyatt for defendant. 



Judgment. — The lord chan- 

 cellor observed, that this case did 

 not come before him upon any of 

 the grounds of hardship and ine- 

 quality, which, in some instances, 

 came under the jurisdiction of the 

 court to relieve. It was not the 

 case of an heir dealing with his 

 expectations ; it was not the case 

 of a man in distress purchasing 

 goods at any price which the ven- 

 der chose to put upon them, and 

 then selling them in another part 

 of the town for half the money, in 

 order to procure a supply to meet 

 an existing pressure ; it was the 

 case of a young man of twenty- 

 five or thirty years of age, contract- 

 ing to buy pictures at a certain 

 price, and coming before the court 

 to claim its assistance against pay- 

 ment, upon the ground of direct 

 fraudulent circumvention in the 

 transaction. 



To support this allegation of 

 fraud, it was stated, that the de- 

 fendant was a clergyman ; that he 

 had heard, that sir G. P. Turner 

 had a desire to become a purchaser 

 of pictures, and had offered hin 



