Document 72, Perfected Interrogatories, undated
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| Interrogatories for the Examination of Witnesses to be produced sworn and examined | ||||
| in a certain Cause now depending and at Issue in the High Court of Chancery wherein | ||||
| Henry Errington Esqr is Complainant And Gawen Aynsley John Tweddell and Bacon | ||||
| William Wastell are the Defendants on the part and behalf of the Plaintiff | ||||
| First Interrogatory | +5Do you know the parties Complainant and Defendants in the title of these Interogatories named or any | |||
| +5and which of them and how long have you so known them or any and which of them Declare the truth of | ||||
| +5the matters enquired after by this Interogatory according to the best of your knowledge Rememberance and | ||||
| belief | ||||
| Second | +5Was you or not employed and when and by whom to make and form a Survey and Plan for the purpose of | |||
| +5making and erecting a Bridge over the River Tyne in the County of Northumberland and a Road thereto in | ||||
| +5the pleadings of this Cause mentioned And did you or not form such Survey and Plan and was or not the said | ||||
| +5Complainant by and under such Articles of Agreement as in the said pleadings mentioned to Build and | ||||
| +5make such Bridge and Road pursuant and Agreeable to such Plan and under your directions and inspection | ||||
| +5If yea whether or no did the said Complainant cause such Bridge and Road thereto to be built erected and | ||||
| +5made pursuant and in every respect according to such Plan and Survey and agreeable to your directions | ||||
| and your inspection and conformable to the said Articles of Agreement – Declare | ||||
| Third | +5Did the sd Complainant as you know or believe or not lay out and expend the Sums of Five thousand seven hundred | |||
| +5pounds and Four hundred pounds in the said Articles of Agreement before mentioned or any further or other | ||||
| +5Sums of Money and to what Amount as you know or why believe in erecting and making the said | ||||
| Bridge and Road – Declare | ||||
| Fourth | +5Was or not the said bridge after and how long after the same had been compleated thrown down by a | |||
| +5sudden and Violent Flood whether was such Accident occasioned by any defect in the said Bridge or from | ||||
| +5the unusual Violence of the Flood and was there as you know or believe any real defect in the said | ||||
| +5Bridge or the construction thereof And set forth the particulars of the said Accident and the occasion thereof | ||||
| as you know or why believe – Declare | ||||
| Fifth | +5Whether or no would it be necessary in Case another Bridge was to be Built over the said River Tyne and | |||
| +5in order to make and render the same safe and secure from the like Accident as aforesaid that the same | ||||
| +5should be erected and built after some other Plan than that by which the said former Bridge made by | ||||
| +5the Complainant was erected and built And if yea what would be the expence of building a Bridge after | ||||
| +5such other Plan And have you made or prepared any Plan and any and what Estimate of the Expence of | ||||
| fulfilling the same and set forth the particulars thereof – Declare | ||||
| Sixth | +5Whether or no in Case another Bridge was Built over the said River according to the Plan upon which the | |||
| +5said Complainants Bridge was Built and erected it would not or might not reasonably be expected to be | ||||
| +5thrown down in the Course of a few years because of the sudden and great Floods which do occasionally | ||||
| appear in the said River Tyne – Declare | ||||
| Last Interrogatory | +5Do you know of any other Matter or Thing besides what you have already deposed which may be | |||
| +5of any benefit or Advantage to the said Complainant in this Cause If yea set forth and Declare the same | ||||
| fully and at large | ||||
| E King | ||||
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