A Mr. Gay applied to the Court of Chancery, on
Monday;for an injunction to restrain Piece, the blind Sardinian minstrel, from performing without his consent. It appeared that Gay had taken an assignment of the services of Piece from two Italians at Florence, who had a contract with the blind man. Poletti, one of them, undertook that Piece should accompany Gay wherever he desired, and Gay brought him to England. Piece, however, seems to have piped on his own account : hence the application to the Court. ViceChancellor Kindersley decided that the contract could not be enforced. A man could not be treated as an ox or a horse, and assigned from one to another as a chattel. The motion was dismissed with costs.
At the Southwark County Court, Mr. Horsey has-obtained a verdict against the South-Eastern Railway for their negligence is connexion with the naval review at Spithead. The Company undertook to convey persons in a steamer to witness the review ; they so nusmimaged matters that many people who had taken tickets only saw the fag-end a the spectacle. Mr. Horsey claimed the restitution of his passage-money ; and the Judge granted it, as the Company had not fulfilled their contract. Five other actions had a similar termination.
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