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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsengr1020 and id is 1 raw text is: REPORTS of CASES ADJUDGED in the COURT of
KING'S BENCH, from Easter Term, 12 GEO. III.
to Michaelmas, 14 GEO. III. (both inclusive).
With Some SELECT CASES in the COURT of
CHANCERY, and of the COMMON PLEAS,
which are within the same Period. To which is
added, the CASE of GENERAL WARRANTS.
By CAPEL LOFFT, Esquire, of Lincoln's Inn.
1790.
[1] MiCHAiLMAs TERM, 3 GEo. 3, 1763, C. B.
NOTE.-This case was not taken by myself, but communicated by the favour of a gentleman to
whom I am much obliged, and whose permission I have to publish it.
JOHN WILKES, EsQ. against WOOD.
The Case of General Warrants. Middlesex to wit, 6th of December 1763.
At the Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster. Sittings after Michaelmas term,
before Lord Chief Justice Pratt, John Wilkes, Esq; plaintiff; Robert Wood Esq;
defendant.
In an action of trespass, for entering the plaintiff's house, breaking his locks, and
seizing his papers, &c.
The plaintiffs counsel were-
Serjeant Glyn, Mr. Recorder Eyre, Mr. Stow, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Dunning,
Mr. Gardiner.
The defendant's counsel were-
Solicitor-General Norton, Serjeant Nares, Serjeant Davy, Serjeant Yeates.
Attorney for the plaintiff, Mr. Philips of Cecil-Street.
For the defendant-
Philip Cartaret Webb, Esq; Solicitor to the Treasury, and Mr. Secondary Barnes.
[2] The special jury-
Plukenet Woodroffe, Esq; of Chiswick; William Baker, Esq; of Isleworth;
William Clark, Esq; of Edmonton; James Gould, Esq; of Edmonton; Stephen
Pitt, Esq; of Kensington; Nathaniel Turner, Esq; of Hampstead; Jonathan
Richardson, Esq; of Queen-Square; John Weston, Esq; of Hatton-Garden; Harry
Blunt, Esq; of Hatton-Garden; Henry Bostock, Esq; of Hatton-Garden; John
Boldero, Esq; of Hatton-Garden; John Egerton, Esq; of St. John's-Street.
Mr. Gardener opened the case, with declaring the foundation, that on the 30th of
April last, Mr. Wood, with several of the King's messengers, and a constable, entered
Mr. Wilkes's house; that Mr. Wood was aiding and assisting to the messengers, and
gave directions concerning breaking opern Mr. Wilkes's locks, and seizing his papers,
&c. for which Mr. Wilkes laid his damages at five thousand pounds.
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