The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Chester, acting as the urban Sanitary Authority,...

The defendants own Queen's Park, a residential building estate of about 45 houses, but have sold some of the houses and building plots there. They own a sewage tank there, from which they have allowed sewage to be carried into the Dee contrary to the provisions of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act, 1876.

a. Brief for the plaintiffs. Includes information about tides in River Dee, as involves question whether Dee is a stream or a tidal water. Includes a table of the rise of the tide at the Weir during June, 1880. Information concerning Corporation sewers. 27ff.

b. Case and opinion of Mr. Bosanquet. 8ff.

c. Oct. 31st, 1881. Letter from F. Marshall to Messrs Walker, Smith and Way concerning Queen's Park sewage. 2ff.

d. Epitome of Improvement Committee Minutes re. Queen's Park, 1851-2. 3ff.

e. Papers concerning the Chester Water Bill of 1857, possibly strays here, but probably referred to in this case:-

i. 6th Feb., 1857. Draft of part of a letter to "My Lord" from concerning the Chester Water Bill. which his lordship has brought in and which the writer has already asked him to oppose as being prejudicial to the City. 2ff.

ii. n.d. 1856-7. Arguments for opposition to the Chester Water Bill. 5ff.

iii. 1857. Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Chester to the Commons in Parliament assembled against "A Bill to make further Provisions for Supplying with Water the City of Chester and the suburbs thereof". Includes history of the supply of water to the City. Printed. 4ff.

iv. 17th Jan., 1857. Letter from J. Newall, from London, to John Walker, Chester, concerning opposition to the Bill. 2ff.

v. 10th Nov., 1853. Letter from Macdougall and Newall a Parliamentary agency to John Walker, concerning drawing up a Bill for Parliament re. Chester Water. 2ff.

vi. Rough pencil notes of resolution concerning stop cocks at Cross. 1f.

vii. 1857? Newspaper cutting re. Chester water.

f. 14 Dec., 1881. Letter from Jno. Mallinson, from Manchester, to Messrs. Walker, Smith & Way, Solicitors, Chester, re. the case. 2ff.

g. File of copies of correspondence, 1879-81. 27ff.

h. 1879-81. Original correspondence and copies. 44ff.

i. Notices and copies of notices to produce and admit. 15ff.

j. Draft resolution of Improvement Committee, Jan., 1882.

k. 1881-2. Bills. 6ff.

l. Copy of a. 35ff.

m. Nov., 1881. Letter. 2ff.

n. Copy of what Mr. Bailey Denton will prove. 4ff.

o. Copy of what Dr. Kenyon will prove. 10ff.

p. 2nd Dec., 1881. Letter from F. Marshall to Messrs. Walker, Smith and Way. 2ff.

q. Copy of statement of plaintiff's claim etc.

r. 1881-2. 16 letters. 16ff.

s. Notes of Bailey Denton's further evidence. 2ff.

t. 1881. Decision of Horatio Lloyd, County Court Judge, in case of the Chester Urban Sanitary Authority v. the owners of certain property in Queen's Park who were accused of polluting the Dee. Printed. 2ff.

u. 4th Nov., 1881. Notice from Horatio Lloyd, appointing 10th Dec. for hearing the case. 1f.

v. Other miscellaneous papers concerning the same case. 76ff