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Les diagrammee suivanti illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 ■ ajlii i yB|, !»aEj|wrg'^'5»»^> . ■ ' » 1 \ • ft 1 ;■'- , ■• . 1 " i« , • * ' m *"' 'fw'i J ■I' 1 _f [•1 ' ■t' f'^ If ' • . 1 • •.1 ' . * 7 l. r • n £*'■ 1 • ) • "'! ,^ HR^'"^ ^ . « t" " ■ ^ ' 5 - ■ "'.i "^M en CO U a en n o a o r-^ mif:?'m^i^msi^m;7wa^m^mmmmsmff t 4,', ^a ■€ PROVINCE OP fX>WER CANADA, COtlRT OF APPEALS. • " , <>» '•.III ' , I't^ A CADSE, between JAMES BURNS, (Plaintiff in the Court below,) AND 6EORGF, BURRBL; (Defendant in the CouH beibxo,) IT l"" THE APPELLAItf^S CASE. '^f Appellant, Respondent. T. «*f. 3) itfi HIS wtis an ActFrtn' brought by the Appellant 'afi;ain8t the Res- pondent in the Court of King's Bench for the District of Quebec, for the re- covery of a sum of ^90, due for the use and occupation by the Respondent of a house of the Appellant situate in the Upper Town of Quebec. The action in its form wa» a general action of indebitatus assumpsit. The Respondent jdeaded, first, the generalissue. , j Secondly^ — A plea of peremptory exception, ki which he ecjtpressly admits that he did occupy, possess and enjoy the premises mentioned and described in th^ Appellant's declaration, but says that he ought not to be. compelled to {)ayfor that use and occupation, because he hehi the said premises under a ease, by virtue of which he became entitled to the use as well of the said premises as of other premises specified in the said lease, of which baid other premises the Appellant had not put him in possession. With this plea of peremptory exception the Respondent filed an inci- dental demaVid, wherein ne reeites a certain lease by John Grave's, the Appel- lant's attorney, unto him the Respondent, as well of tHe premises ment'^ned in the Appellant's declaration, as of apother house bdilt of stone situate in Angel street and the bake-house in tlie rear of the said house,/ and avers that he the Respondent subsequcntly.to the execution of the saiil^ lease, did lease and deniise unto one John Parker part of tlie aforesaid premises — that the said AppellftTit had *Wt'caUsed tlie said Ridspbrideifit t6 have* aiid to hold the said hous€*'built of storvein Angel street and' the "bafoe-houSe in tHe roar thereof. And that he the Respondent had iri consequence been prevented from carry- ing on his trade atid biiinness of k confectioner 'and had been exposed to an action of damages on the partbf the said Rbbeirt Parkefj fdt not putting him the said Robert Partt^ hitd'poissesrion Of the pWniises bV hirfi the said Res- pondent, demised and leased unto him the said Robei't Parker. The Res- pondent concludes f6r the moderate sum of i^'OO, damages. .^ This incidenialdeWaif^'ilr^filea'oh the lOtH da^y of Cither 1816. By the rules of practice of the Court below it is provided, "That the . " rules' i«rid; ord*4^/hei%by preseribetf] with re^bect to pfeadings upon rfewwin- > f " rfea.,;, And'aboiy *' That'ife^^iy ihdidetttial^tiPois^d^ff^^ shafP h^ deemed and " taken to be a distinct action, and shafi* riot' bfe jty^rtnrtted; in any respect, to " delay the proceedings of the Plaintilt or Plaintiffs^ in fl^ny case, in which any, " such incidental-cross-tfemanie shallbe instituted ; it being nevertheless here- " by provided, that nothing in this rule shall extend, or be construed to extend, *' to any matter of reconvention, or compensation which shall amount to, and " be pleade as a tUfenae to the demande in chief." — lb. sect. 7, §. 39. 147927 nc h :i..\v ,1m I .1. I.'; (T!) ( '. ' The iettoic'^n^ the mrit of th« Rules of practice go to keep separate the ^[nrhicfpal knd the crosk-detnatid,' and to ^Ive tat|ie,incideniBk defendant the same delays, which he would have had, if the incidental demand had been brought a^ a demaod in chief ThCiriile to plead therefore to this incidental demand^ expired only in vacation and before tlie Appellant could have been shut out from his w right to plead, a demand of a ptea must have been served upon him. — See Rul^s & Orders, sect. 7. 4, 8. & $. 2o. ■ ' . \ . The Respondent however, without previbus notice to the Appellant, ob- ''tained, on the nineteenth of the same month of October, a rule to proroctl ex parte on the incidental demand. This proceding came to the knowledge of the Appellant in the subsequent vacation, and on the very first day of the ensuing term, the Appellant pointed out this irregiilai'ity, and moved that the rule to proceed ex parte might be set aside. , The Court below, on the fifth of the month of February, discharged the Appellant's rule. The order of the Court of the i9th October and that of the 5tn February following, are the first and second Judgments appealed from. The Appellant-imniediately moved to discharge the rule to proceed ex parte upon payment ahd costs, filing pleas instanter and taking short notice of trial. The parties were heard and twice reheard upon this rule, and it was only on the 19th of April following that the Court belojv pronounced its Judg- •ment discharging the rule with costa. Thi;; is the. third Judgment appealed from. The Respondent having thus excluded the Appellant from the cause, pro- teeded, on the 10th of May 1816, to the adduction of evidence. He exammed Thomas Majoi^ibauks, David Robertson, Pierre Langlois & Pierre Allard. No continuance of the enqu^e'was asked or ordered. By the rules of the Court below and by the practice of the, Courts of every civihzed country, he could not be admitted to offer any further testimony. — See Rules & Orders, 9ect. 8. ^. 8. & 9. Yet finding that he had not made out his case, he, on the 12th of June following, produced and examined another witness. Peeling still that his evi- dence was not sufficient, he, on the I9ih of June, without hawng obtained any further continuance of the enqufite, produced and examined two other witnesses, and filed a great variety of documents. With the aid of these irregular proceedings, the Respondent obtained, on the 13 October 1817, a Judgment condemning the Appellant to pay the enormous sum of £250. — Prom this Judgment also the Appellant appealed. ' i On the part of the Appellant it is contended, 1. That the rule to proceed ex parte, of the 19th October, was obtained' prematurely and contrary to the • letter and spirit of the general rules and ordei^ of the Court. 2'. That if this were otherwise, that rule ought to have been discharged upon the Appellant'^ offer to pay costs, plead instanter and take short notice j of trial .-1-Courts are unwilljng to adjudge upon the rights of parties, without first hearii^ them, aud wherever they pan without delaying the Plaintiff give to the beten^ant the opportunity^ . of beipg heard and cross-examining the Plaintiffs witnesses, this opportunity is adorned. ' In iflie ^iiglish Courts, hotwlthktandling the extreme strictness which pre- vails in iheir proceediiigs, the nile to proceed ex parte, is uniformly discharged upon the Defend^pt offering , the ternm)>,,whiich.wer6 in this instance offered by. the present Appellant. Sdly. ,'yhfi eyidenc^, as well p^vcol^ ap writtea produced.and filed by the Respo»d«it li^ dhp Court^elow, sub!pequ0ntly to the day upon which the Res- , poi^ent entered upon his enqu^jb^.; was [received contrary to the letter and .spirit ojf the general rulea^n4 orders of ^e Court. 4tlily. There is no sufficient evidence in the cause to warrant the finding of the Court, foji.so l^gpfa (sum a^, that<«warded to the Respondent, by the final Judgment in th^;Ca*Mie.(,Hu.rii MS » hi, I f i QtjEBBc, 12 Jadtitkry; 1^19.' liT KH was w^ ■ .4 i