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Mr J. A. Froude, the historian, who is collecting materials for a work on the South African Colonies, has gone to Port Elizabeth and Natal, Mr Baron Bramwell, with a common jury, on December 7th tried the case of Cull v the London and County Banking Company. This was an action to recover damages from the bank for dishonoring the plaintiff’s cheque. The plaintiff is a tailor at Maidenhead, where his wife carries on the separate business of a milliner and dressmaker, each of them keeping their separate accounts with the Maidenhead branch of the defendants’ bank. Being compelled to give long credit in their several trades, they sometimes required accommodation from their bankers, and for many years the defendants had occasionally permitted them to overdraw their accounts, and sometimes to the extent of £2OO, and had discounted bills for them. In the spring of the present year Mrs Cull, believing that she was entitled to draw against certain acceptances which she had asked the bank to discount, drew a cheque for £1 10s 6d in favor of the London firm with which she had business transactions, and this cheque the bank dishonored. The plaintiff thereupon brought this action to recover damages for injury to his wife’s credit that was occasioned by the dishonor of her cheque. Mr Benjamin, on behalf of the defendants, stated that, after hearing the evidence of Mrs Cull, his clients were satisfied that she honestly believed that she could draw upon the bank for the amount of the cheque, and that they were sorry for any inconvenience or damage caused to her by this mistake. Under these circumstances they had consented that a verdict should be entered; for the plaintiff for £ls.