Pinsent v Stockman: An action to recover £64, the price of seventy-six sacks of barley: Mr. Collins, Q.C. and Mr. Pitt-Lewis for plaintiff; Mr. Cole, Q.C., and Mr. Brucknill for defendant. The facts of the case briefly stated were as follows. Plaintiff, John Ball Pinsent, is a brewer and maltster and John Stockman, a miller, both of Newton Abbot. The Claim was for seventy-six sacks of barley at 17s per sack sold to the defendant on the 4th February 1875. Defendants denied that he ever had the barley and said he knew nothing about it. As far back as 1874, plaintiff bought ninetyeight sacks of barley from Mr. J. H. Mugford, a timber merchant, of Bovey. He tried twenty sacks of barley and found that it would not malt. He agreed that Mugford should sell the remainder. Mr. Mugford went to the defendant and the defendant agreed to buy the barley for grinding. Payment was not demanded for some time and then the defendant denied that he ever had the barley and said that he could not have had it as his mill was burnt down at the time. The case was not concluded when the Court rose.
Devon Summer Assize: Nisi Prius Court: Thursday: The Lord Chief Justice took his seat at ten o’clock, and the hearing of the unfinished case of Pinsent v Stockman was resumed. Both sides were very positive. Mr. Mugford produced a memorandum book containing an entry of the sale under date February 4th, 1875, and said he told Mr. Pinsent on the following day that he had sold the barley to Stockman. Witnesses were also called to prove the delivery of the barley. Mr. Stockman denied that he ever bought the barley charged to him and produced his books to show that no entry had been made of any such transaction, or the delivery of any such amount. The jury retired, and after an absence of about an hour returned with a verdict for plaintiff.
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901