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PROVINCE OF LOWER.CANADA,} 
 
 DISTRICT OF QUEBEC. 
 
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 In tAppeaL 
 
 BETWEEN 
 
 THOs. EVANS, Eso. 
 
 (Plaintiff in the Court below) 
 
 Appellant ; 
 
 AND 
 
 JAMES HALFHIDE, 
 
 (Dejindant in the Court below) 
 
 Respondent. 
 
 THE RESPONDENT'S CASE. 
 
 THIS was an Action founded on the Law (Ede. 
 
 The Declaration states that the Appellant, being proprietor of a Lot of L<nd, situated in the 
 Suburbs of Montreal, with two Houses erected thereoii....That the Respondent, from about the 1st 
 NoTember, 1819, to the 24th April now last past, occupied and possessed the said Lot of Lind and 
 premises, as the Tenant of the Appellant, at the rent of £80 par annum, but without uiiy Notarial 
 orregularLfase to that effect, and did stiUoccupyai.d possess the sam^ ...Tint on thx s.ilil 'iHh day 
 of April last, the Appellant intending to occupy the said premises so Icagt^d, in his proper person, 
 gate to the Respondent notice to quit (CongS ile ditogcr) on the Ut of May th.'u .ext and now last 
 pa«t....That on the 10th of the same month of May, the said Appellant again summoned the said Re*. 
 ponJenttoquit the said premises, which he had neglected to do- 
 
 The conclusion of the Declaration is in the u-uil f inn of an action founded on thr- Law yEr/e. 
 
 Tothis Action the Respondent filed a Plea of Peremptory E«ception, containiuit the followina 
 grounds of Exception, • 
 
 1st. That it doth not appear, nor is it alleged by the sail Appellant, in his said Declaration 
 that the piemiscs, whereof he was desirous of obtaining possession as propii'tor, are of sH(h a na- 
 ture as to entitle him to the privilege of occupying the same in pi-'ference to the said Respondent. 
 But that, on the contrary thereof, it does appear in and by the said lljclaration, an<l by the d'signa- 
 tjon thereof, the said premises in the said Declaration contained that the said premises are of a des- 
 cription which, by Law, does not entitle him, thesaid Appellant, toexpal him, the said R;^^s,iondenl, 
 in order to occupy the said premises himself. 
 
 2dly. That the gereral obligations in tlie said Declaration contained, did not warrant the con* 
 elusions thereof. 
 
 3dly. That the said Declaration and the conclusions thereof were irregular insnlTicient and 
 Incongruous. And the said Respondent without wa?cr of the said Temnrrer or Exception perem- 
 toire, pleaded next the Gene' < issue. 
 
 And lastly, hepleaded as ,. i*eremptory Exception, that on the 4lh of March last, and at the 
 time of the institution of his action, he, the Appellant, was domiciliated at Kingston, in the Pro- 
 vince of Upper Canada, as a Major of His M ijesly's seventieth regiment of foot, which then was 
 and still is quurtr red at Kingston aforesaid and that until the departure of the said llej;iment from 
 Kingston aforesaid, he, the said Appellant, must remain domiciliated at Kingston aforesaid, and that 
 on the aforesaid 4th day of March last past, and at and on divers other days and times previous there- 
 to, he, tlie said Appellant, let and leased the said premises unto him, the said Respoi.denl. consent- 
 ins thereto, at and for the rate and price of jf GO per annum, upon the expre^^s condition that he, the 
 laid Respondent, should retain and continue to occupy the same for one year, lo be computed from 
 the first day of May last, unless the said 70th resilient of foot, quartered at King-ton,aforesaid, should 
 replace the 37th regimentof foot, quartered at Montreal. And the ReS|)on(/ent aver r*ed that at the 
 time ofthe institution of the said action, the said 70th lleginn^nt was and still is q. irtereilat Kingston 
 aforesaid and that the snid 37th Regiment hath not been removed from Montreal or r.pliiced by the 
 laid 70th Regiment. And further that he the said to appellant did expressly renounce to the privilege 
 of occupying the said premises and of dispossessing the s dd R 'spa id.'it th reof u il 5< t'l? said 70th 
 Regiment should be quartered at Montreal aforesaid, in the plate and stead of the said 37th Regiment, 
 and that since the making ofthe said lease, as aforcyaid, nothing hath occurred to entitle the said Ap- 
 pellant to the right of maintaining his said action ; and further, that the said preteuded notification 
 or conge in the said declaration contain"d, was null and void, and insulhcient. 
 
 The special d.murrer was subsequently withdrawn, nnd i'sne was joined upon the other pleas. 
 
 Tlie congi, filed on the lease, is not made or signed by the Appellant — it is made hv C. R. Og- 
 den, Esq. acting (as is said) for the Apprllant ; but no Power of Attorney, or autliority of any kind, 
 has been produced, to shew to the Respondent, or to the Court helow, that Mr. O.^dtii was author- 
 ized to make the said notification or conge. The proceeding being an extra-juilicial one, a special 
 power was necessary. 
 
 The correspondence between tire parties establishes the agreement to have been as stated by the 
 Bespoudent. It appears that the Appellant obtained a special leave of absence from his Regiment, 
 and had, in consequence, removed to Montreal. This w is an event which was not in the contempla. 
 tion of either of the parties at the time of the lease, and couU therefore form neither an express nor 
 implied condition. 
 
 In truth, however, the case, as rtated in the Appellant's declaration, rests wholely and solely 
 uponthe l<aw CEde. To maintain his action he was hound to shew — 
 
 1. — A notice to quit, by himself or his lawful Attorney. 
 
 2. — A reasonable delay to theTenant, accordidg to the usage ofthe particular City, to enable him 
 ionrocnre .inothnr house. That delav is nrncpij (n lie at Montreal af I'krsa Munlks. i'he Auuellant 
 gave One Week. 
 
 The judgment of the Court below was, therefoie, what alone it ctuHUuTe been, a judgment dis- 
 missing the Appellant's action, with costs. 
 Qutbtc^ Utk Nov. 1820. 
 
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