Tag: Pinsent & Co (law firm)

The Fatal Boiler Explosion at Darlston: Yesterday, Mr. E. Hooper (coroner) held an inquest at the Town Hall, Wednesbury, on the body of Israel Durfield (19) who was killed at the South Staffordshire Tramway Company’s Depot in Darlston, on Friday morning. The company was represented by Mr. A. Dickinson (general manager), Mr. H. Hatchett (secretary), Mr. Tibbits, (traffic superintendent), and Mrs. F. Eden Smith (from the office of Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co.), and Mrs. Elliot (Messrs Duigan and Elliot) attended on behalf of the Law Accident and Contingent Company

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Stratford on Avon Rural Sanitary Authority: … A Novel Interlude: At this point a messenger came for the clerk, Mr. Beard announcing, on his return to the Boardroom, that an emissary from Messrs. Smith Pinsent and Co., wished to serve personally onto the chairman: – Mr. Jones: Not a writ? (laugher): Mr. Beard: No, a copy of the injunction (laughter). The emissary was ushered in, and addressing Mr. Jones said: You are the chairman? Mr. Jones: I believe I am: The visitor went on to say that his name was Smith, from Smith Pinsent and Co., and he wanted to serve a copy of the Henley injunction on the chairman and clerk: The Chairman: It was suggested that I should make my exit down the fire escape (much laughter) … 

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The Rating of Electric-Lighting Companies: The Birmingham Electric Supply Company (Limited) v. The Churchwardens and Overseers of Birmingham Parish: Mr. Freeman and Mr. Parfitt (instructed by Messrs. Smith, Pinsent, and Co.) appeared for the appellants, while the rating authority was represented by Mr. A. Young and Mr. H. Young (instructed by Mr. F. Redfern) … (concern about arbitrary application of rates) …

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List of Applications will be closed at 10 a.m. Tuesday the 16^th inst: Showells brewery Company (Limited): Incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1886: Breweries, Oldbury and Stockport: Offices, Birmingham: Paid up Capital, £550,000: Issue of £250,000 part of £400,000 of Mortgage Debenture: four and a half percent stock at the price of £102 10s per £100 stock, redeemable at the option of the Company after the 1^st of January 1909, on six months’ previous notice at a premium of £ 10 per cent ….. Solicitors to the Trustees, Smith, Pinsent and Co., Birmingham … Prospectus …

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Sale of Properties: Wednesday, 7^th November 1894 (by order of the Executors of Mr. John Goodrick, deceased; Wm. Thos. Dawkins, deceased; Luke Marler, deceased; Joseph Darby, deceased; Lucy Benton deceased and W. D. Jenking, deceased): To be sold by auction, by Messrs. Franck Smith & Wilson, at the Grand Hotel, Colmore Row, Birmingham on Wednesday 7^th November, 1894, at seven o’clock p.m. to the minute under condition then to be produced … Lot 12: park Road, Hockley (By order of the Trustees of the late Mr. Joseph Darby) a commodious Grocer’s Shop, No. 537, Park Road, Hockley (Close to Ninevah), also the dwelling house at No. 535, with garden and premises. Let: To Mr. H. A. Symonds, Grover and Corn Factor on an annual tenancy of £30 a years, the tenant paying all taxes and water rate, the Front dwelling No. 533 adjoining let at 3s 3d a week making a total annual rental of £43 13s. … Lot 12: Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, 39 Waterloo Street …

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Action Against the Stratford on Avon Rural Sanitary Authority: Samuel Hollingsworth Agar and John Jams Agar, of Henley in Arden applied for an order under the River Pollution Act of 1876 restraining the Stratford on Avon Rural Sanitary Authority from polluting the river Alne by causing sewage to flow therein: Mr. Kettle, instructed by Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., of Birmingham, represented the plaintiff, and Mr. J. C. Warden appeared for the Authority – In formally asking for the order, Mr. Kettle said he had Mr. Warden’s authority for saying that the defendants were willing to agree to an order under the terms of the agreement … (continues) …

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Sales by Messrs. Roderick and Son: Sale of Properties, October 2, 1894: … (description of 16 Lots including) … Lots 15 … To capital Front Houses, Nos. 19 and 21 Clissold Street … and … Lot 16, To capital Front Houses, Nos. 200 and 202 Heath Street … … as to Lots 15 and 16, to Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, Waterloo Street …

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Sale of Properties: October 2 1894: By Roderick & Son: To be sold by auction at the Property Mart, 6 Temple Row West, Birmingham, on Tuesday next, October 2, at six o’clock in the evening, subject to conditions to be then produced. … Lot 15: Clissold Street (by direction of the administrators of the late Mr. George Lee), two capital front house, Nos. 19 and 21 Clissold Street, near Crab Tree Road, All Saints) and three houses in the rear, with garden, outbuildings and bricked yard, all well let at rents amounting to £58 10s per annum: This is an excellent small property: Term of Seventy three years in March last: Ground Rent:. 5: Lot 16: Heath Street, (By direction of the same administrators), two capital front houses, Nos. 200 and 202 in Heath Street, near Tudor Street, Winson Green and four house in the rear, with outbuildings and bricked yards: All well let at rents amounting to £87 per annum … as to Lots 15 and 16, to Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Solicitors, Waterloo Street …

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Sales by Messrs. J. Shedden and Son: Dismantling of the Hope Steet Iron and Tinplate Works: Church Lane, Tipton: … (description of plant and buildings) … Further particulars may be obtained from Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., solicitors, Waterloo Street, Birmingham …

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Sales by Messrs. Thomas and Bettridge: Lindenhurst, Wellington Road, Edgbaston, Important sale of very superior household furniture: … (discussion) … On view Tuesday Next, September 11, from 9.30 until Two o’clock: Catalogues may be obtained at the Offices of Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., solicitors; or of the Auctioneers, all of Waterloo Street, Birmingham.

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