Judgment was given in the Queen's Bench Division on Monday
by Mr. Justice Grantham, Mr. Justice Kennedy concurring, in the case of " Burrows v. Rhodes and another." The plaintiff claimed damages for fraudulent misrepresenta- tions, by which he had been induced to take part in Jameson's Raid,—in which he had been wounded at Doornkop, lost a leg, undergone seven surgical operations, and suffered heavily in health and pocket. The defendants,as Mr. Justice Grantham observed in his judgment, contended that it was immaterial whether the person employed in such expedition bad a merle tea or guilty knowledge of the nature of his act, or not. Though he believed that his action had the sanction of the Queen's Government, he was just as much a criminal as the defendants who bad knowingly broken the law. " A. grosser perversion of English justice," continued the Judge, " it is impossible to imagine, and I should indeed be sorry if, under any circumstances, it could be proved to be English law." After an exhaustive inquiry into the authorities advanced by the defendants' counsel, Mr. Justice Grantham expressed his satisfaction that the law had been purged from the suggestion "that fraud and false representation injurious to an innocent person could be committed with impunity if the injured person had by such fraud and false representation been unwittingly and innocently made to commit what the law
pronounced to be a crime"; and dismissed the demurrer with costs. This judgment forms a very pretty prose commentary on the Laureate's ballad, " Jameson's Ride."
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