554 PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN V. MARWOOD. 
the more easy recovery of small debts and demands where the proceedings are by plaint, 
but not in any Superior Court. 
“2ndly. The action must be brought under section 15 of the ‘Pharmacy Act, 1868,’ 
and in the manner provided by section 12 of the 15 & 16 Viet. cap. 56. No authority 
or fiat of the Attorney-General, or other public officer, is necessary in respect of such 
action. 
“ 3rdly. The production of a printed copy of the register for the year in which any 
offence under the Act is alleged to have been committed will be sufficient evidence of 
the fact that a person whose name does not appear on such register was not, at the time 
of the commission of the alleged offence, registered under the Act. 
“ R. P. Collier. 
“ E. Bullock. 
“5, Pump Court , Temple. January 4 th, 1870.” 
The Judge .—I should like to consider the case, and will reserve my judgment. 
Mr. Flux .—The adjourned hearing of the north of England case stands for Friday, 
and it is very desirable that your honour’s judgment should be known, in order that, 
whichever way it may be, it may be quoted to the Judge at Oldham. 
The Judge .—I will endeavour to give judgment to-morrow. 
Thursday , February 10 th, 1870. 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. M'Call. 
Judgment given for the plaintiffs, with costs, including attorney’s fee. 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN v. MARWOOD. 
This case came on again before J. S. Temple, Esq., Q.C., at the Oldham County Court, 
on the 11th of February, 1870, upon adjournment from the December Court. 
Mr. Flux again appeared for plaintiffs, and Mr. C. E. Blackburne, for the defendant. 
The Judge .—I have considered this case, and am of opinion that the plaintiffs cannot 
succeed in this Court. 
Mr. Flux .—If your honour will favour me for a few minutes, I trust to be able to show 
that the plaintiffs were right in bringing this case before this Court. It may be in your 
honour’s memory, that when the case was before the Court in December, your honour put it 
upon me to obtain an opinion of her Majesty’s Attorney-General, and that subsequently to 
December such an opinion was placed by me in your honour’s hands. 
The Judge .—Have you seen him ? 
Mr. Flux. —I have, and laid a case before him, and I have got his opinion; it was neces¬ 
sary for me also to have a junior counsel, and at an expense to my clients exceeding £20, 
I am in a position to produce a joint opinion. Before reading it, however, I may mention 
that on the last occasion, you inquired of me for a precedent for this action, I then men¬ 
tioned that it was the first case that had come on for trial; but it has happened that another 
case precisely similar in character has been heard before the County Court Judge for the 
Bloomsbury District in London, Mr. George Lake Russell. That learned judge heard the 
case, and, so far as I am able to form an opinion, it presented all the features which the pre¬ 
sent case does. After hearing it, that learned judge was of opinion in my favour, when the 
defendant in it mentioned the doubts entertained by your honour, and I then placed in the 
judge’s hands a copy of the opinion, which I will presently read to your honour. The 
judge then reserved judgment, and on a subsequent day he gave a verdict for the plaintiff, 
with costs. It so happened, as I am informed, that in County Court practice there is no 
record of judgment handed to a solicitor, therefore I am only in a position to inform your 
honour that the case resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs, mentioning, at the same time, 
that I presume the learned judge’s notes would be open to your honour in case you desired 
it. When the judge at the Bloomsbury County Court said that he would like to adjourn 
the case for his decision, I mentioned to him that this case was appointed for to-day, and 
that I thought it would be satisfactory to your honour if I could mention, on this occasion, 
the conclusion arrived at by him; he promised to accommodate me if possible, and, as a 
