So  in  Rex  v.  Cross  (3  Camph.  226)^  the  defendant  was
indicted  and  found  guilty  for  keeping  coaches  at  a


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stand  in  the  street  waiting  for  passengers.  The  same
principle  was  acknowledged  in  Rex  v.  Janes  (3  Camph.
230),  where  the  defendant,  a  timber  merchant,  occu-
pied a  small  yard  close  to  the  street,  and  from  the
smallness  of  his  premises,  was  obliged  to  deposit  the
long  pieces  of  timber  in  the  street,  and  to  have  them
sawed  up  there,  before  they  could  be  carried  into  the
yard.  It  was  argued  that  this  was  necessary  for  his
trade,  and  that  it  occasioned  no  more  inconvenience
than  draymen  letting  down  hogsheads  of  beer  into
the  cellar  of  a  publican.  But  Lord  Ellenbokough
said:  "If  an  unreasonable  time  is  occupied  in  the
operation  of  delivering  beer  from  a  brewer' s  dray  into
the  cellar  of  a  publican,  this  is  certainly  a  nuisance.
