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Material, 1897-1900, relating to the case of John Pethick & Pethick Bros of Plymouth v. the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company, the arbitrator in the case being Sir James Weeks Szlumper, and including: printed material, May-December 1900, relating to the court case, with further handwritten, typewritten and printed reports, statements, accounts, etc.; a copy of Sir Benjamin Baker's report, 1898, on the Porthkerry Viaduct; and a printed claim, April 1900, of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company against John Pethick and Pethick Bros, with a handwritten amended claim, May 1900. The volume also includes a printed contract, 1894, of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company, including accounts, some of which are filled in by hand, together with hand written specifications, accounts, etc., 1895; a typewritten transcript of another court case, 1898, involving the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company; copies of correspondence, 1897-1900, between the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company and the Railway Department of the Board of Trade; and a printed copy of the 1889 Vale of Glamorgan Railway Act.

Material, 1898-1899, relating to the case of James Nuttall of Manchester v. the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Company, the arbitrator in the case being Sir James Weeks Szlumper, and including printed and handwritten transcripts of court proceedings and printed and handwritten statements, with annotations.

Printed copies of the Devon and Cornwall Central Railway Company (Plymouth and Devonport Extension) Bill 1883, with estimations of related costs, 1882; printed and handwritten transcripts of Parliamentary proceedings relating to the Bill; printed and handwritten petitions against the Bill, including petitions from the London & South Western Railway Company, the Great Western Railway Company and the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Devonport; other printed material relating to the Bill.

An account of proceedings of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the East Denbighshire Railway Bill, 20 April 1894; pleadings in the action of Whitwham and others v. The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company, in the Court of Queen's Bench, July 1895; advice by Frederick Low on the evidence in the Hawarden Loop Line Arbitration; particulars required from William Davies in the same proceedings; a list showing the apportionment of tithe on land taken in Hawarden, 1895; a statement of surplus lands belonging to the estates of Benjamin Piercy in Hawarden, 1895; a copy of an order appointing a receiver for the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway, 21 September 1897; a statement of grants made, 1897-1908, by the Piercy Trustees to charitable institutions and objects; a copy of the Award of Sir Benjamin Baker in the action of Whitwham v. The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company, 19 January 1898; the affidavits of Francis Henry Hawkins, Thomas Cartwright, Frank Williams, James Burton Pollitt, and William Pollitt in the matter of the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company and the Railway Companies Act of 1867; judgment in the action of Whitwham and others v. The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company, 15 March 1898; a copy of the affidavit of Francis Henry Hawkins in the matter of the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company and in the matter of the Railway Companies Act of 1867, 29 March 1898; further affidavits in the same matters by James Burton Pollitt, William Pollitt, and Henry Douglas Eshelby, 1 April 1898; briefs on adjourned summons in the same action, 25 April - 1 July 1898; judgment returned 1 November 1898, and notes of proceedings in the Queen's Bench Division, 22 November 1898, in the action of Whitwham v. The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway Company.