| Notes: | Norfolk Chronicle
Saturday, 5 Dec 1778, Page 2
To the Printer of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE.
Henry Wells, of Banham, plaintiff - And Tho. Watling, of Winfarthing, defendant.
SIR,
As many of your Readers are in some degree interested in this cause, not only from the contradictory accounts given of it in your paper in the month of August last, but from the public nature of it, I hope it may not long be thought impertinent to inform them of the final determination thereof. - On Tuesday the 24th of last month, the point reserved by the defendant for the opinion of the Judges of the Com. Pleas came on to be argued before them, when after a very short hearing, they were unanimously of the opinion that the plaintiff ought to recover against defendant in this action, and plaintiff is thereby entitled to damages and costs in suit. The law, as laid down by all the Judges, being, that no commoner can legally keep more flock upon the common in the summer than he can well maintain in the winter, upon the lands for which he claims his right of commonage.
This plain short account of the matter, it is hoped, will not, (as heretofore) be deemed either partial or fallacious, and nothing more is meant by requesting you to insert it in your paper, than that it may be the means to deter others from the unreasonable surcharge of commons, by which practice such commons have been rendered of little or no value to the rest of the commoners.
I am, Sir,
Your old correspondent,
A Detester of Fallacy.
Dec. 3, 1778. |
