COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, GUILDFORD.
(Before Mr. Craig)
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Mr Rowcroft contended that the notice of objection was invalid, because the residence of Mr Williams was not annexed to the signature.
Mr Craig said this was a question upon which the decisions of the House of Commons were contradictory, the Bedford committee deciding one way, the Petersfield another, and the Ripon first deciding and then retracting its opinion, and leaving it undetermined. He was averse to put aside the real merits of a case, and decide it upon a formal point, and in the beginning of the week he had stated at considerable length the reasons why he did not think it absolutely essential that the place of abode should be attached to the signature in a notice of claim.