in which a black sheep of the aristocracy figures prominently has just been partly heard by the Lord Chief Justice, It isa suit brought by Mr. Sam Lewis, a very well-known money-lender who is distinguished by the fact that he has never appeared in any of Mr. Labouchere's black lists, against a young man named Clay, to recover £11,000 on two promissory notes drawn by Lord William Nevill, a younger son of the Marquis of Abergavenny, and Dacked by Mr. Clay. The defence was that Mr. Olny had teen induced by fraudulent conduct on the part of Lord William Nevill to put his signature to the bills, Mr. Clay being by an elaborate trick led to believe that he was merely witnessing a signature. The jury have found that the defence was true in fact and this was indeed hardly disputed by the plaintiff. They have, moreover, found that there was no serious carelessness on the part of the defendant in being misled by the trick. But the question of law has still to be argued. Lord William, who is now concealing himself somewhere on the Continent, undoubtedly obtained the money by a trick, and the only question is, who should bear the loss—the money-lender or the man who backed the bill
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