CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3] — Page 298

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addressed to them a

I letter disclosing further Enclosure &

my

wish to act liberally towards them;

but

intimating that the Attorney General

had been instructed to try the question

of liability

in the least vexations

man mer

profaible for the purpose of obtaining decision from the Supreme Court.

8. As

mo

a

further advances were made by the Marine Lot holders, I asked M? "Keswick, resident managing partner of Jardine Matheson H6", and whose

!

name

was at the head of the list of those

who signed the reply handed in on the 3rd November, if he would

Jadmit, with

to

aque

a view to Saving expense,

all obvious facts, and try the question of

Fright by

demurrer to be

to be argued before

the Supreme Court.

9. He

once

agreed to this and I at communicated the fact to the Attorney General, who, however, found afterwards

that Mr Keswick's case was

adopted

by all the Marine Lot Holders, and that Mo Meswick had joined them

in so

conducting

issue before a jury.

it

as to send the

going

-on

10. The Acting Attorney General, Mor Ball, had been very confident of the strength of his case till shortly before the trial, when it appeared that he had been the supposition of the Phaya forming part of the premises originally demised, a thing imposible, because the Traya and Sea. Wall

and Sea Wall

are some hundred

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