HN10/372/Adams6

(i) Frederick Thomas Tanqueray and Robert Hobourn of Woburn, solicitor's v (ii) Sarah Ann Mann, widow; Groom Cooper Bunker and Sarah Bunker, spinster and infant. Copy brief for the defendant Sarah Ann Mann in the matter of the estate of John James Reynal Adams, decease at the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division. (1912 A.No861) Drawn up by Halse Trustram & Co. of 61 Cheapside, London: - See originating summons at HN10/372/Adams4. - See affidavit given by (i) at HN10/372/Adams5. - Brief contains short statements and accounts of the Wetherall and Downes mortgages (see HN10/372Adams2)'The court is to decide which funds or properties should bear the burden of the amounts secured by such mortgages'. - 'it is clear that the effect of the contracts for sale entered into by the testator or his authorised agent on the day before his death is to convert the lots 3,4,7,8 and 9 of Clipstone Farm into personally and therefore the 4490/10/- realised under such sales was personal estate at his death'. -'As the remainder of Clipstone Farm unsold was of a sufficient value to bear the whole of this mortgage the part converted ought not bear any part of the mortgage'. - If however, the above conventions are not accepted by the court Mrs Mann must be entitled to have the incumbrances on the entire estate so as to throw the proper proportions of the mortgages upon the real estate that was not sold by the testator'. - Brief shows accounts representing percentages of each mortgage apportioned rateably with the values of the parts of Clipstone Farm sold before and after the death of the testator.

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From: 1912 To: 1912

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Tanqueray, Frederick Thomas,
Hobourn, Robert,
Mann, Sarah Ann,
Bunker, Groom Cooper,
Bunker, Sarah,
Halse, Trustram & Company

Trustram & Company Halse, Chancery, High Court of Justice, John James Reynal will: Adams, mortgages, Eggington Clipstone Farm, legal accounts, case notes, suits, EGGINGTON, HOCKLIFFE, City of London Cheapside