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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TRIAL OF Til R CASE SMYTH v. SMYTH AND OTHERS, AT THE GLOUCESTER SUMMER ASSIZES, BEFOBB MR. JUSTICE COLERIDGE AND A SPECIAL JTJBY, On August 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1853. Counsel for the Plaintiff: Mr. Bovill (now Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas), Mr. Phipson, and Mr. Dowdeswell. For the Defendants: Sir Frederick Thesiger, Q. C., Mr. Crowder, Q. C., Mr. Alexander, Q. C., Mr. 3rM/, Mr. Skinner, and Mr. Taprell. INTRODUCTION. Magna est veritas et prcevalebit f Seldom has the truth of this maxim been more strikingly exemplified than in the case of the Claimant to the large estates of the Smyth family in Somersetshire and Wiltshire? Sir Richard Hugh Smyth, Baronet, otherwise Dr. Smith, otherwise Thomas Provis. Seldom has exposure been more complete, more overwhelming, or more merited. Since the trial of Alexander Alexander, soi-disant Earl of Stirling, at Edinburgh, in the year 1839, for forgery (to which the present case bears in. some respects a great resemblance) there has probably been no civil cause in modern days which attracted at the time so much attention as the one now under consideration (a). A short statement showing the pedigree of the Smyth family, and how the claim originated, will perhaps be found (a) When this was written the Tichborne Case was only in its infancy, and the trial had not commenced. useful for the purpose of following the case attempted to be set up on the part of the Claimant; but as the whole of the interest of the trial is derived from the evidence of the plaintiff himself, from his cross-examination by Sir F. Thesiger, and from the dramatic denouement and collapse of the whole case, no further summary or outline will be attempted. The clear and lucid manner indeed in which the case was ope...
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