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In the Supreme Court of British Columbia The fourteenth day of November A.D. 1878 Victoria [?] The Plaintiff [person's name] by Robert Edwin Jackson his Attorney sues the defendant John Maguire for that the defendant converted to his own use and wrongfully deprived the Plaintiff of the use and possession of the Plaintiff's goods that is to say five chests of tea. And the Plaintiff further sues the defendant for that the defendant broke and entered the dwelling house belonging to the Plaintiff and continued and stayed therein for the space of one day making great noise and disturbance therein and greatly disturbed and disquieted the Plaintiff in the possession and enjoyment of the said dwelling house and then also with force and arms took and seized divers goods and chattels to wit five chests of tea Then being in the said dwelling house and in certain parts thereof then used as a shop by the Plaintiff in his trade and business of a merchant and which said goods and chattels then were part of the stock in trade of the Plaintiff in the way of his trade and business and of great