| Reference Number | DSCAM/5/3/7 |
| Title | Case papers, Page v Cresswell |
| Description | Mary Page (Plaintiff) v Edward Lowe Cresswell and Josiah Cresswell (Defendants). In the Exchequer of Pleas, Staffordshire Spring Assizes, 1859. Case for damaging buildings by working mines. |
| DSCAM/5/3/7/1-2: Agreement (30 Mar. 1859) between Mary Page of The Fox Yards, parish of Sedgley, Staffs., widow and Edward Lowe Cresswell and Josiah Cresswell of Tipton, Staffs., ironmasters, in compromise and settlement of their dispute; Cresswells pay £270 for damages and costs to Page in instalments to 1 Sept. 1859, will become tenants of the shop and premises at the Fox Yards for 4 years at a rent of £150 p.a. and will pay rebuilding costs of the premises before the expiry of the term, etc. Two receipts. |
| DSCAM/5/3/7/3: Draft terms for settling Page v Cresswell, 12 Mar. 1859. |
| DSCAM/5/3/7/4-13: Brief for the defendants, copies of notices to admit and produce, copy rule and issue,draft evidence, etc. |
| DSCAM/5/3/7/14: Copy correspondence (dated 14 July-20 Dec. 1858) received by E.L. Cresswell/Messrs Edward Cresswell and Sons, from Richard Smith, Priory Office, Dudley and H.M. Wainwright, Dudley concerning injury to Mrs Page's property by the Creswells' mining operations and denial by Lord Ward [Earl of Dudley']s agents that they were authorised to work under buildings at the Fox Yards. |
| DSCAM/5/3/7/15: Copy of a counterpart lease (of 20 Feb. 1844) by the trustees of the will of the Earl of Dudley (Rt Revd Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter, Edward John, Baron Hatherton, Francis Downing of Dudley, Worcs., Esq. and John Benbow of Mecklenburgh Square, Middlesex, Esq.) to James Page of The Fox Yards, Woodsetton, parish of Sedgley, publican, of 4840sq. yds of land there as specified, reserving minerals, for a term of 60 years from 25 Mar. 1844, at a rent of £5 p.a.; provisions include mining damage |
| DSCAM/5/3/7/16-18: Subpoenas etc. |
| DSCAM/5/3/719-21: Plans, one copied in Waterloo St, Birmingham from a survey of 1825, and account for preparaing same. |
| DSCAM/5/3/7/22: Letter from Henry M. Wainwright, Dudley to Messrs Coldicott and Canning, Dudley concerning plaintiff's intentions; 5 Mar. 1859. |
| Date | 1858-1859 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 22 items |
| Level | Item |