HN10/276/Green13

Letter from Halse, Trustram & Company of 61 Cheapside, London to John Thomas Green: - "We have obtained the Interrogatories answered from Counsel [see HN10/276/Green12] and will send the Affidavit to be sworn to [unreadable]. We now send the further Opinion of Counsel on which we wait your further instructions. Counsel suggests payment of a further sum of 25 as an amount that would prevent the possibility of Def'ts being saddled with costs. It would have been satisfactory if he had stated on what footing he arrived at that sum for we confess to thinking that if Plaintiff is entitled to anything more than 12/6/2 it would be a much larger sum then 25. It appears to us that if Plt can recover more than 12/6/2 it is at all events the Commission on the amount of Thomas' valuation less what it would have cost Plt to make the Valuation & as the total would be 50 it is scarcely reasonable to suggest that the Valuation would have cost Plt half that amount & in this we ignore Commission on the 1500 original purchase money. We doubt Plaintiff being disposed to accept less than 50, if anything less than his claim, but Mr.Thomas can best advise what sum should be paid in making fair deduction for cost of doing the work. Personally we should not be inclined to pay in anything in respect of the 1500, but even as to that no one can foresee what view a Jury may take. With regard to the Interrogatory to which Mr.Richards refers as not answered, the Interrogatory was disallowed by the Registrar"

6 Mar 1888

From: 1888 To: 1888

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Halse, Trustram & Company,
Green, John Thomas,
Richards, H.C.,
Alfred Thomas, Peyer & Miles,
Thomas, Alfred

North Western Brewery Dunstable, John Thomas Green, Trustram & Company Halse, specific solicitors, affidavit, legal correspondence, valuations, Peyer & Miles Alfred Thomas, DUNSTABLE