Catling v Bowling
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1790 |
| Date | 01 January 1790 |
| Court | Court of the King's Bench |
Catling
and
ers. Bowling
English Reports Citation: 96 E.R. 810
COURTS OF KINGS BENCH
catling vers. bowling. Leave given to bring a book into Court in an action of trover. Upon a motion for leave to bring a book into Court, for the conversion of which an action of trover was brought, it appeared; that the book, entitled Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, had been lent by a bookseller to some young ladies at a boarding school; that the defendant's wife, who was mistress of the school, took it from them and sent it to the bookseller, with a request that it might not be again lent to the young ladies ; and that the book being afterwards found in the possession of one of the young ladies, the defendant's wife took it from her and kept it. [81] A rule was made to shew cause, why, upon bringing the book into Court, the proceedings should not be stayed...
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