County Court October 9^th – Before E. Cooke Esq.

Claim £2 4s 6d for cutting a gravestone, cut end and put down for defendant’s child in the burying ground of the Baptist Chapel, Rushden. This was a case that was adjourned from last court day to allow defendant to produce evidence to prove that Iliffe had made and put down the stone without asking leave of the minister of deacons of that place of worship. The Rev. T. Bradfield, minister of the Baptist Chapel, was sworn. There had been no permission given by him, or by the deacons to put down the stone, but it had been done without their knowledge. Defendant’s wife also positively denied that an order had been given to complainant to erect a stone. Complainant said he had at different times put as many as 10 stones in that burying place without ever asking anyone but the sexton’s permission to do so; and he had only done and acted the same in this case as in previous ones. His Honour said it did not seem reasonable that a man should have done as defendant had done unless he had been ordered. He swore positively to receiving the order for erecting the stone, and he had put it up in the usual way. Verdict for plaintiff £2 4s. 6d.