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D504 - Clients of Messrs Brooke Taylor & Company of Bakewell, solicitors - [15th-20th cent]
- 53 - The Derbyshire Printing Company Ltd, newspaper proprietors and printers, of Buxton - 1909-1933
  - 6 - Litigation - 1910-1931

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D504/53/6/2
Title	Bundle of papers relating to legal cases brought by Charles F White
Date	1912-1919
Description	Charles F White (registration agent for the Liberal Party in the West Derbyshire parliamentary constituency, parliamentary candidate and member of Derbyshire County Council) brought various legal actions for slander following allegations of drunken-ness and 'pub-crawling' made against him at a public meeting in Cromford on 16 Nov 1911 and reported in the High Peak News. The actions were against Mr Joseph Henry Rose of Cromford for making the remarks, against E W Barnes for reporting them, against Mr Dunbar the editor of the High Peak News for printing them and against the Derbyshire Printing Co Ltd for publishing them. The case was taken to the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Mar 1913 and dismissed. The following year White brought an appeal, by which time he had been bankrupted by the costs of the case. Bundle includes copy statement of claim and notes by Mr Rose; list of witnesses; copy affidavits; bundle of proofs giving verbatim statements of witnesses; notes relating to Mr White's conduct, and notes for cross-examination; verbatim summing up by Mr Justice Darling at the High Court of Justice in the case White v Barnes, 6 Mar 1913; copy notices, petition, opinion, affidavits, instructions and brief in the appeal, Mar 1914; brief and copy notices in bankruptcy proceedings against White at the County Court for Derbyshire, 1913-1917; lawyers' bills charged by Messrs Taylors of Bakewell for work done Dec 1911-Apr 1914; and correspondence, Jun 1912-Oct 1919
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Client of Messrs Brooke Taylor & Company of Bakewell, solicitors
Archive Creator	The Derbyshire Printing Company Ltd of Buxton, newspaper proprietors and printers

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