Regina v West Riding of Yorkshire 456 Rogers v Allen

COMMON LAW REPORTS,

OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN

THE COURTS OF

QUEEN'S BENCH, COMMON PLEAS, EXCHEQUER,

Exchequer Chamber,

AND

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL.

RICHARD JOHNSON

v.

THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN.*

(Queen's Bench.)

IN Hilary Term (January 30th) 1864, the Court granted a conditional order to erase from the burgess-roll of the borough of Dublin the names of Robert Fitzgerald, John M'Mullen, Edward Mellon, and Michael Hogan, on the grounds that no one of them occupies within the borough premises sufficient to qualify him to be a burgess thereof; and that those names should not have been retained on the burgess-roll at the last revision.

This motion was substantially an appeal from the decision of the late Lord Mayor and his two assessors, constituting the Court for revising the burgess-roll of the borough of Dublin, who had, in the month of November 1863, inserted these four names in

the burgess-roll.

house, warehouse, counting-house or shop," does

The main question in the four cases was, whether a burgess not thereby

disentitle himself to have his name inserted in the burgess-roll.

* Before O'BRIEN, HAYES and FITZGERALD, JJ.

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