--========/44202FB90016D4A6/mk-cpfrontend.uk.tiscali.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My query seems to have disappeared without trrace. Didn't think it was t= hat hard - or was it too trivial? ___________________________________________________________ Tiscali Broadband from 14.99 with free setup! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/ --========/44202FB90016D4A6/mk-cpfrontend.uk.tiscali.com Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from [80.41.93.138] by mk-cpfrontend.uk.tiscali.com with HTTP; Sat, 6 May 2006 00:42:12 +0100 Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 00:42:12 +0100 Message-ID: <44559AF40002840C@mk-cpfrontend-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com> From: jbwillerton@tiscali.co.uk Subject: Court case To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Gale Group National Library Week trial was a huge success for me - I'= ll be sorting records into context for weeks - but it (as usual) prompted as= many questions as it provided answers. For instance: I found the report of a case in the Court of Queen's Bench in 1852 - WILL= ERTON v HALEY. The report merely refers to the litigants as 'plaintiff' and 'd= efendant' without giving a clue as to which was which. Am I correct to assume that= the plaintiff would be the first one named, i.e. that WILLERTON was the plaintiff and HALEY the defendant? The case involved a ship named as the Lord John Russell. Could someone p= oint me to a web site where I might find some information about this vessell? Thanks in advance, people, and good luck to all. Jim ___________________________________________________________ Tiscali Broadband from 14.99 with free setup! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/ --========/44202FB90016D4A6/mk-cpfrontend.uk.tiscali.com--

Yes, the usual format is first named plaintiff v first named defendant, so as you suggested your Willerton would have been the plaintiff (or one of them). You can find quite a lot out about the ship Lord John Russell from The Times online, if you still have access. (For example, my local library gives all members access from home.) Searching on text = "Lord John Russell" and restricting the search to Shipping News produces 388 results. To find out what sort of ship she was and her port of registration, official number etc., try and locate a copy of the "Mercantile Marine List" or "Lloyd's Register of Shipping" for the relevant time period. On 5/13/06, jbwillerton@tiscali.co.uk <jbwillerton@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > My query seems to have disappeared without trrace. Didn't think it was t= > hat > hard - or was it too trivial? <snip> > I found the report of a case in the Court of Queen's Bench in 1852 - WILL= > ERTON > v HALEY. The report merely refers to the litigants as 'plaintiff' and 'd= > efendant' > without giving a clue as to which was which. Am I correct to assume that= > > the plaintiff would be the first one named, i.e. that WILLERTON was the > plaintiff and HALEY the defendant? > > The case involved a ship named as the Lord John Russell. Could someone p= > oint > me to a web site where I might find some information about this vessell?