GRAHAM V. GRAHAM.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 275, 26 August 1872, Page 3

GRAHAM V. GRAHAM.

The protracted suit of Graham r. Graham is at length approaching a termination, and the case may now be said to have travelled out of the hands of the lawyers and parties interested (with whom it has rested for the last fourteen months), to be dealt with finally by his honor the judge, whose decision will be loosed forward to with curious interest by the general public, and no doubt with considerable anxiety by the parties in the suit. The arguments of counsel upon evidence before the Court were concluded on Saturday. The speeches were unusually lengthy, and marked by considerable ability on both sides, and there esn be no doubt his Honor has had the case placed before him in such a full and exhaustive manner by the learned gentlemen as will leave him but little difficulty in forming his judgment. It may be remarked, in justice to the gentleman who has come out from England to give evidence and represent tho plaintiffs in this case, Mr Appleton Watson, that it became evident during the Attomey-Gen-erai’s address ou Friday that he had (probably after beiug informed of the wellknown respectability and high character of that gentleman) abandoned what at one period seemed to be his trump card of defence, viz., that Mr Watson, having been previously a resident at Melbourne, had, while at Beverley, concocted the letter signed Thomas Graham, and got it conveyed through the post office to the plaintiffs. Mr Stephen suggested, however, that lie might have mentioned the existence of the two sons and the circumstances of their father’s career incidentally in a letter to Australia, and that tho information might have found its way into the hands of some unscrupulous person in Melbourne, who had forged the letter as from ThomasGraham, aud sent it to Beverly.— Leader.