| Reference Number | DSCAM/4/6/4 |
| Title | Bundle of material re Wight to Skirrow indemnity, Guest v Smythe litigation etc. |
| Description | DSCAM/4/6/4/1-3: Particulars of sale (Guest v Smythe and others, in Chancery) on 29 July 1869 of John Piddocke's life estate and the contingent life estate of his brother, Leonard Thomas Piddocke, and various expectancies in the Oakthorpe estate (Lot 1), and payment of the deficiencies on the annuity in Lot 4 not provided for by the income from the Consols; life assurance policies of John Piddocke; and (Lot 4) two-sixths of £4102 11s 4d 3% Comsols payable on the death of Joseph Boyer and subject to a payment of a £300 annuity to him. Plan of the Oakthorpe estate produced for affidavit in Guest v Smythe, 7 Dec. 1869. Copy minutes of order in Guest v Smythe discharging order of the Master of the Rolls of 17 Mar. 1870 etc [3 May 1870]. |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/4: Draft conveyance (18 July 1870) by Henry Coldicott of Dudley, gentleman and Charles Coldicott of Walsall Road, Handsworth, Staffordshire, gentleman, and Edwin Fisher Smith of Dudley, Worcestershire, Esq. and Edwin Dudley of Kingswinford, Staffordshire, gentleman (trustees under the will of the late Joseph Guest), to Thomas Wight of The Monks House near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, gentleman, and by William Hall of Atherstone, Warwickshire, gentleman (in whom the legal estate is vested) to Thomas Holyoake Wight of The Monks House, gentleman, to the use of Thomas Wight, of the life interest in possession of John Piddocke, the life in remainder expectant upon Jphn Piddocke's death without male issue of Leonard Thomas Piddocke, and the reversionary estate upon the failure of the male issue of both of them, in the Oakthorpe estate (210a. 2r. 34p.) in the parishes of Church Gresley and Stretton en le Fields in the counties of Derby and Leicester, and of two-thirds of the minerals, and an estate in fee simple in possession of one third of the minerals etc., subject to various payments from the two-thirds interest in the minerals to the Oakthorpe Entail Fund but deriving benefit therefrom in respect of various estates and interests, and subject to the payment of the deficiency in the £300 annuity; covenants to discharge Succession Duty etc.; consideration of £6110 to the credit of the cause Guest v Smythe and others ; recites previous deeds from 1792 on, births and deaths in the Piddocke family, assignment of mortgage to Guest in 1860, his will and death, decrees in Guest v Smythe, will of William Coldicott; schedule of deeds and schedule of lands attached. |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/5: Copy draft deed of covenant (19 July 1870) between Thomas Wight of Dudley, Worcestershire, gentleman and Charles Fletcher Skirrow of Staple Inee, Middlesex, Esq. for the production of title deeds [some as in DSCAM/4/6/2 series]. |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/6: Draft indemnity (19 July 1870) from Wight and Skirrow to Henry Coldicott, Charles Coldicott, Edwin Fisher Smith and Edwin Dudley, vendors, in respect of any Succession Duty payable on the cesser of the annuity of £300 payable to Joseph Boyer, and any duties payable under the will of the Revd John Piddocke in respect of the life estate of Leonard Thomas Piddocke etc.; recites will of Revd John Piddocke, Chancery litigation, fund of £4102 11s 4d 3% Consols to provide income towards £300 annuity and assignment (1853) of various one-sixth interests in the annuity to Skirrow, will of William Coldicott, sale of life and reversionary interests in estate to Wight and Skirrow, assignment by Coldicotts, Smith etc. of their interest in the Consols/annuity; schedule of deeds attached. |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/7: Draft indemnity (1870) from Skirrow to Wight of The Monks House near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, gentleman, in respect of two-sixths of an annuity of £300 charged upon the Oakthorpe estate and of the share of the Succession Duty payable on the cessser of the annuity; recites will of Revd John Piddocke, decree in Guest v Smythe in Chancery etc. and subsequent sale, that Skirrow is purchaser of Lot 4 and Wight of Lot 1; schedule of lands comprised in Lot 1. (210a. 2r. 34p.). |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/8: Copy statement prepared by Skirrow re Piddocke v Boultbee and involving the £4102 11s 4d Consols, Boyer's annuity and the terms of one of the deeds of 19 July 1870, June 1874. |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/9: Opinion of M. Ingle Joyce, Lincoln's Inn on the Wight/Skirrow dispute, 2 July 1874. |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/10: Draft statement of annuity payments 1870-75. |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/11: Copy correspondence (dated 1871-74) between Wight and Skirrow and with and between their legal advisers, Messrs Gregory Rowcliffe and Co., 1 Bedford Row, Messrs Combe and Wainwright, 9 Staple Inn and Messrs Robinson and Watts of Dudley, 1874. |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/12: Copy draft statement agreed to be submitted to Cotton, QC for his decision between the parties (Wight and Skirrow), n.d. |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/13: Bill of costs for 1874-75 for Thomas Wight, 1876 |
| DSCAM/4/6/4/14: Letter from Messrs Rawcliffes, Rawle and Co., 1 Bedford Row to Thomas Wight re Piddocke v Boultbee and petition presented by the Equitable Reversionary Interest Society Ltd as assignees of three-sixths shares in the £4102 11s 4d Consols. |
| Date | 1869-1876 |
| 1889 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 14 items |
| Level | Item |