Petty Sessions: Tuesday: Before J. Divett, Esq., (chairman,) C. J. Wade, Esq., G. B. Ellacombe, Esq., and Admiral Wise: Six boys, called John Witherton, James Kerslake, William Luscombe, Robert Lethbridge, Joseph Tonkins, and James Morris, were charged with endangering passengers by making slides in East street: Ordered to be locked up until the rising of the court: Partridge v. Thomas Pinsent: Mr. Whiteway for complainant, and Mr. Baker for defendant. Defendant was summoned for non-payment of a sewer rate, amounting to £3 15s. 4d. by the sewer authority for Kingsteignton. The case was partly heard on the 28th September last, and as it then transpired that the defendant had paid £10 for a previous rate that afterwards proved invalid, it was adjourned in order that Mr. Pinsent might bring an action in the County Court to recover the amount from the overseers. Mr. Baker said he had given this due consideration, and had arrived at the conclusion that if he took the case to the County Court, he would be met by the Judge that as the rate was not quashed the question would have to be tried as if it was a valid rate. Under these circumstances the bench now ordered payment of the rate but without costs.
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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872