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Short Title: (i) Hyams v Solomons; (ii) Davids v Solomons. Plaintiff(s): (i) Abigail...
Catalogue reference: E 134/30Geo3/East6
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This record is about the Short Title: (i) Hyams v Solomons; (ii) Davids v Solomons. Plaintiff(s): (i) Abigail... dating from 1790 Apr 21-1790 May 17 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/30Geo3/East6
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1790 Apr 21-1790 May 17
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short Title: (i) Hyams v Solomons; (ii) Davids v Solomons.
Plaintiff(s): (i) Abigail Hyams, widow (now deceased); (ii) Ephraim Davids.
Defendant(s): Joseph Salomons [Solomons] and the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
Depositions for: Plaintiff.
Subject of Depositions: The sum of £480 sterling invested by defendant Solomons [Salomons] for plaintiff Abigail in the purchase of £800 three per cent consolidated bank annuity stock; touching the alleged refusal of the defendant Salomons to transfer said stock to the plaintiff unless he was paid the sum of sixteen pounds [two cases].
County: London; Cambridgeshire.
Taken at: Court of Exchequer.
Date of Commission: 23 April 1790.
Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (1 May 1790) taken before Francis Ingram, deputy remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer (pursuant to a decree of said Court made 18 Apr 1788).
See also: E 134/28Geo3/Trin9; E 134/30Geo3/Hil4.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Pay and pensions
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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