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OF

CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

In the Court of King's Bench,

IN THE

NINETEENTH, TWENTIETH, AND TWENTY-FIRST
YEARS OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.

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CASES

ARGUED AND DETERMINED

IN THE

COURT OF KING'S BENCH,

IN

TRINITY TERM,

IN THE TWENTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III.

1780.

May.

STRACY and Another, Assignees of BISHOP, a Tuesday, 30th
Bankrupt, against HULSE and Others.

THIS
HIS was an action of trespass against Hulse and Benyon,
two justices of the peace, and Barthrop an excise-officer.
It was tried at the last assizes for the county of Essex, before
ASHHURST, Justice, when a verdict was found for the plain-
tiffs, with £59. 6s. 4d. damages, subject to the opinion of the
court, on a case which stated as follows:

If a candle-ma

ker, being in ar rear for the siu

gle duties, berupt, and is convicted after the

comes a bank

assignment of his effects; the

candles, utensils,

assignees; and

A commission of bankrupt was issued against Bishop, (who double duties are was a candle-maker) on the 4th of February, 1779, and his alien upon the estate assigned to the plaintiffs on the 17th of that month; the and materials, in act of bankruptcy having been committed on the 29th of Ja- the hands of his nuary preceding. On the 4th of March, an information was they may be exhibited against him, before the defendants Hulse and Ben- distrained. yon, for not paying £29. 139. 2d. the single duties then due and payable, for candles made by him, between the 9th of November and the 23d of December, 1778. On the same day. on which the information was exhibited, he was served with a summons to attend the justices on the 6th of March, which he VOL. II.

B

did;