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Samuel Benson’s Promissory Note

1881 - 1882

From: 1881 To: 1882

Papers of a legal case: E Powers and Sons v. Julien Alexander Murrey and Frederick Conder (trustees of the Will of Samuel Benson) relating to a promissory note of £934..12s..6d in favour of Edmund Powers etc. signed by Samuel Benson, his wife Lucy, his son Charles and J A Murrey the money was in fact owed by Charles Benson, so Powers firm agree not to enforce it during his parents’ lifetime Samuel Benson died 4 December 1874 and Lucy on 15 April 1879 As the personal estate was insufficient to pay debts, the trustees sold the real estate The Bond was signed by Samuel Benson (aged 80+) to stifle legal proceedings against Charles Benson for embezzling money administered by him as the Powers’ clerk at flour mills at Kings Cross and Biggleswade case dismissed with costs against Powers and Sons

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Hooper & Fletcher,
Powers, Edmund,
Powers, E & Sons,
E Powers & Sons,
Murrey, Julian Alexander,
Conder, Frederick,
Benson, Samuel,
Benson, Lucy,
Benson, Charles

Hooper & Fletcher, general legal process, legal papers, court, trustees, wills, Samuel will: Benson, promissory notes, debt, DEATH, buildings and land use, embezzlement, clerk, flour, MILLS, Kings Cross, Kings Cross Albion Mills, York Road, BIGGLESWADE, Biggleswade Holme Mills