NISI PRIUS COURT
(Before Mr. Justice Crompton and a Common Jury).
ACTIONS TO RECOVER POSSESSION.
Samuel Smith and Henry Bonham Carter, plaintiffs, v. Pledger and Hope, defendants.—Mr. Karslake, Q.C., and Mr. Russell for the plaintiffs; and Mr. S. Carter for the defendants.—This was an action brought by the trustees of the late John Bonham Carter, Esq., to recover possession of some cottages at Sheet, near Petersfield. The premises in question had been leased to a person named Blunt, at Michaelmas, 1800, for 99 years, upon three lives, aged respectively 39, 15, and 13. These lives had since fell in, the last one on the 7th of March 1864, and the plaintiffs now claimed possession.—The defendants, who had not paid any rent for some years, assumed they had obtained a right to the property, but upon the direction of his Lordship a verdict was entered for the plaintiffs, they waiving all claim to any back rents.