Buckley and Seville

of Booth Hill Mill, Oldham

1877 Partnership change. '...the Partnership 'subsisting between Betty Buckley, of Booth Hill Mill, within Oldham, in the county of Lancaster, Widow, but now deceased, and the undersigned George Seville, of Booth Hill Mill aforesaid, Cotton Spinner, carrying on business under the firm or style of Buckley and Seville, was dissolved on the 16th day of April, 1877. All debts due to and owing by the concern will be received and paid by the said George Seville, by whom the business will in future be carried on, under the aforesaid style of Buckley and Seville...'

1886 Legal dispute. '...It appeared that two gentlemen, brothers-in-law, named George Seville and John Buckley, carried on business together in partnership, as cotton spinners, at Booth Hill Mill, in Royton, near Oldham, the capital of the business consisting of £10,000. of which Mr. Seville contributed £4,000 and Mr. Buckley £6,000. The fee simple of the land upon which the Booth Hill Mill stood was conveyed to the partners, one-third to Mr. Seville and two-thirds to Mr. Buckley. The deed conveying this property was dated in 1855, and Mr. Buckley died in 1857 intestate. Letters of administration were then taken out his widow, Mrs. Betty Buckley, who carried on the cotton spinning business in partnership with Mr. George Seville until her death. In January, 1861, the two-thirds interest in the mill was conveyed to Mr. George Seville in trust for Mrs. Betty Buckley as to one part, and as to the other part in trust for himself, and in May, 1864, a plot of land, containing 1,542 superficial square yards, was conveyed to the partners as partnership property. Mrs. Betty Buckley died intestate, and letters of administration were taken out to her property by her son Mr. Seville Buckley. 1877 Seville Buckley conveyed his mother's interest in the partnership to Mr. George Seville with the concurrence of the defendants to this action. Mr. George Seville died in 1881, and appointed Mr. John Buckley his executor, who duly proved the will and a valuation was then made, for the purposes of probate, of the Booth Hill Mill property, and such valuation showed that the land on which the mill stood had increased value to the amount of £1,721 15s. 6d. since the 16th of April, 1877. The defendant, Mr. John Beckett, divided this sum of £1,721 15s. 6d., the amount of the increased value of the land, amongst the defendants to this action, together with interest, and the plaintiff now claimed that the agreement which this division had taken place was wrongfully entered into, and ought therefore to be either rectified or set aside. The plaintiff at the time the division took place was under age, and has only recently attained his majority. The defence was that the plaintiff's claim was based upon an entire mistake as to the facts. It was further contended that if the plaintiff had applied to Mr. John Beckett, who was the proper person to apply to for information, being the trustee and executor of Mr. George Seville, before he had commenced the action, he would have been made acquainted with all the facts relating to the estate. As, however, he had not done so, but had commenced the present suit upon wrongful information, the defendants asked that it mhrht be dismissed with costs...'

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