A Rating Question: At the Stourbridge Petty Session, on Friday in last week, before Colonel Fletcher, colonel J. B. Cochrane, and Mr. A. F. Godson, M.P., a case which has been before the Bench previously was called on, in which Mr. C. P. Noel was summoned by the Overseers of Belbroughton for a poor rate of £9 5s, on the Yew Tree House, which forms part of his estate. Mr. Waldron appeared for the Overseers, and Mr. Pinsent (Birmingham) for the defendant … (property was about ten acres and the house was untenanted) … Mr. Pinsent urged that there was no beneficial occupation whatsoever by Mr. Noel. Several cases bearing on the point were referred to, and in the end the Bench decided to make an order for the payment of the rates.
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