Legal records and correspondence relating to property situated at Bull Street and...

BCC/4/1/4/1/1

Legal records and correspondence relating to property situated at Bull Street and Union Passage, Birmingham

1864 - 1914

1. 'Hortons' Estates Limited and Crockford Grove and Sons Ltd. and The Lord Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of Birmingham. Brief for defendants. The Birmingham Corporation. List of documents accompanying Brief'. Also included are other lists of documents supplied and accounts for legal and professional fees relating to the case. Handwritten and typescript documents dated [January] 1910 - August 1914 (4 items).

2. 'Horton and Crockford. Extracts from the diaries of the late Mr. William Martin 1895-8'. The diaries relate to correspondence and interviews of plaintiffs, defendants and other parties affected by the proposed improvement works at Bull Street and Union Passage. Handwritten copy. Originally numbered '18' (1 item).

3. 'Hortons Estate Ltd. to The Corp[oratio]n of B[irming[ham]. Requisitions and Observations on Title and Replies ther[e]to'. Typescript copy, dated 31 March 1898. Originally numbered '22' (1 item)

4. ‘City of Birmingham. Byelaws with respect to New Buildings, 11th April 1899’. Relates to Section 3: External walls. Typescript copy (1 item)

5. 'Copy extract from Case laid by Messrs. Crockford, Grove & Co. Limited before Mr. Lyttleton Chubb and his opinion thereon'. Typescript copy, dated 1908 (1 item)

6. 'Reports on Horton's action'. Bundle of reports which largely detail the history of the case, as well as associated legal and financial proceedings. Annotated and amended typescript reports, dated 13 October 1910 - 8 October 1914 (1 bundle).

7. Horton’s Estate Limited v Crockford Grove & Sons Limited and Others. Plaintiffs affidavit of documents fos. 90'. Also includes notices to produce and admit evidence, along with details of the documents produced in evidence during the Chancery proceedings presided over by Mr Justice Joyce. Some of the documents included in the affidavit are in this collection, the remainder (if not lost) should be with the master records relating to the case, which should be held amongst the records of Chancery in the National Archives, Kew (see BCC/1/AX/1/9/1). Typescript copy with amendments. Document originally part of series H.1981. (1 bundle)

8. 'Crockford, Grove & Sons Limited and Corporation of Birmingham vs. Hortons Estate Limited. Instructions to Counsel to settle Defence and Counterclaim'. Amended handwritten copy, dated 1910. Document originally part of series H.1981 (1 item)

9. 'Horton’s Estate Limited vs. Crockford Grove and Sons Ltd. and the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Birmingham. Instructions to Counsel to advise on evidence and generally'. Handwritten opinion on evidence attached. Typescript copy with amendments, dated 1910 Document originally part of series H.1981. (1 item)

10. 'Hortons Estate Limited and Crockford Grove and Sons Ltd and the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Birmingham. Instructions for Defence of Birmingham Corporation'. Typescript copy with amendments, dated 1910. Document originally part of series H.198 (1 item)

11. 'Horton’s Estate Limited and Crockford Grove and Sons Ltd. and the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Birmingham. Brief for defendants. Birmingham Corporation'. Typescript copy with amendments, dated 1910. Document originally part of series H.1981 (1 item)

12. 'Horton’s Estate Ltd., Plaintiffs and Crockford Grove & Sons Ltd. and the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Birmingham, Defendants. Brief for the defendants. Crockford, Grove and Sons Ltd'. Typescript copy with amendments, dated 1910. Document originally part of series H.1981 (1 item)

13. 'Horton’s Estate Limited v Crockford Grove and Sons Ltd. and the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Birmingham. Instructions to Counsel on Settlement of action'. Amended typescript copy, dated 1910. Document originally part of series H.1981. Originally numbered '27' (1 item)

14. 'In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division. Between Hortons Estate Limited, Plaintiffs and Crockford, Grove & Sons Lim[ite]d and The Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of Birmingham. Pleadings'. Handwritten copy with related correspondence and agreements, dated 1910 - 1912. Document originally part of series H.1981 (1 bundle)

15. 'Horton’s Estate Limited and Crockford Grove & Sons Limited and the Corporation of Birmingham. Agreement for the settlement of an Action 1910 H. No. 1981. Draft agreement, with amendments. Dated 1910 and undated. Originally numbered '1' and '4' (2 items)

16. Addition to proofs of evidence, with plans of Union Passage development and related notes. Handwritten and typescript documents with amendments, dated February 1911 – February 1913 (1 bundle).

17. 'Crockfords vs Horton. Notes from Martins Copy Bill. Taken at Redfern Hunt & Co B’ham office'. Dated 10 April 1913 (1 item)

18. 'Horton’s v. Corporation & Crockfords. Memo. of Pleadings for use of expert witnesses on behalf of Defendents'. Dated May 1913 (1 item).

19. 'Re Horton's Estate action. Comments on Conditions of Settlement in the Benjamin Hortons [title] of 12 June 1913'. Handwritten list of conditions, dated 23 June 1913 (1 item).

20. ‘Horton’s Limited v. Corporation and Crockfords. Suggested terms of settlement’. Handwritten draft, dated 23 June 1913 (1 item)

21. ‘Hortons' Ltd. v. The Corporation and Crockfords. Suggested terms of settlement’. Typescript copy of BCC/1/AX/1/9/1/1/20, d.ated 24 June 1913 (1 item).

22. Undated evidence of Mr William Joseph Potae. First line: 'William Joseph Potae says:-'. Typescript copy, undated (1 item).

23. 'Hortons' Estate Ltd. v. Crockford Grove & Sons Ltd. and the Corporation of Birmingham. Agreed correspondence (prior to action'. Bundle of typescript copy correspondence dated 7 April 1864 - 28 May 1910 (1 bundle).

24. Correspondence file [1] entitled: 'The Corporation and Crockford. Grove & Sons Ltd: Correspondence. February 1910 to December 1912.' Handwritten and typescript correspondence (since action brought) dated 7 February 1910 - 11 December 1912 (1 file).

25. Correspondence file [2] entitled: 'The Corporation and Crockford. Grove & Sons Ltd: Correspondence. January 1913 to June 1913'. Handwritten and typescript correspondence (since action brought) dated 8 January 1913 - 27 June 1913 (1 file).

26. Correspondence file [3] entitled: 'The Corporation and Crockford. Grove & Sons Ltd: Correspondence. July 1913 - '. Handwritten and typescript correspondence (since action brought) dated 3 July 1913 - 17 October 1914 (1 file).

27. 'Hortons' Estate Ltd. v. Crockford, Grove & Sons Ltd. and the Corporation of Birmingham. Correspondence (since action brought) 20th July 1910 to 8 October 1913, & not included in files of corresp[onden]ce Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (see - 26'. Copy correspondence (1 bundle).

28. Miscellaneous bundle correspondence re Bull Street widening scheme. Handwritten correspondence dated 4 February 1896 - 16 July 1897 (1 bundle).

29. Miscellaneous bundle of correspondence between Martin and Chamberlain, Architects, A.L. Crockford and J. Barnsley and Sons re Bull Street works. Handwritten correspondence dated 19 September 1898 (1 bundle).

30. Miscellaneous bundle of correspondence, entitled '1903 - 8. Correspondence with Mr. Tart re letting Nos. 101, 102 & 103, Bull Street to Messrs. Crockford'. Handwritten correspondence dated 23 May 1903 - 29 October 1905 (1 bundle).

31. Miscellaneous bundle of correspondence, entitled '1903 - 8. Correspondence re Letting of No. 103, Bull Street to Messrs. Crockford. Inter-departmental correspondence, memoranda, etc. Handwritten and typescript correspondence, dated 25 July 1903 - 16 October 1905 (1 bundle).

32. Miscellaneous bundle of correspondence re Crockford Grove and the Public Works Department, Birmingham Corporation, re 101, Bull Street, Birmingham. Handwritten and typescript correspondence, dated 18 October 1905 - 7 July 1908 (1 bundle).

33. Miscellaneous bundle of correspondence re Bull Street widening scheme (mainly street lighting and windows) and related plan drawings and legal affairs, dated 10 March 1906 - 14 August 1910. Includes an extract from a conveyance of 10 May 1898 from Hortons' Estate Ltd. to the Corporation re rights to improve their property (1 bundle).

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