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what has been said, however, it follows that there is no case for the defendant to answer. The plaintiff's clain is dismissed and there will be judgment for the defendant.

MR. DONNELLY: My Lord, and costs follow the event?

COURT: With costs, yes. Well members of the jury, you have heard what has

terminated these proceedings. I am indebted to you for your attendance, a public duty of a very important kind. Although the result may seem to you surprising, that is the way the law takes the matter and that is my ruling upon it. If your time appears to you perhaps to have been wasted, I hope that at any rate what has transpired in this court has not been wholly uninstructive. Thank you very much.

12.05 p.m. Court rises.

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