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Claim for loss of property #5240 – Particulars

  No. of Claim Name of Claimant Description of Claimant Address of Claimant  
  5240 John Hall Farmer and Grinder Damflask Near Bradfield  
  Nature of Claimant’s Interest   Particulars of Claim Amount of Damages Claimed  
  Owner and Occupier of the Lands and Hereditaments mentioned in the Particulars, Owner of the Personal Property therein mentioned, and Occupier of two Grinders Troughs at "Stacey Wheel"   Valuation and Professional and other Charges prior to Claim £2 12s 6d  
    Damage done by the Inundation of the Lands belonging to and occupied by the Claimant at Damflask, and the destruction of the crops surface and Walls and by the destruction of Stacey Wheel, where the Claimant occupied two Grinders Troughs, and by the destruction of Damflask Dam, from which the Claimant had the right of taking Water. £127.0.0        
    The following are the Particulars        
    To 24 Roods of fence Walling washed away at Damflask, at the bottom of House Field and Meadow £18.0.0        
    To 44 rood; 5½ x 5½ yards">Perches of Grass Land flooded and the Crop of Seeds nearly destroyed £5.0.0        
    To 820 Yards of soil washed away out of the House Field £16.0.0        
    To 2 Tons of Turnips washed away 2.4.0        
    To 2 Grindstones washed away 0.12.0        
    To 1 New Ladder 6 Yards 0.11.0        
    To 2 Knee Pads washed away 0.2.6 £42 9s 6d  
    To compensation for loss of Water obtained from the Damflask Dam which was destroyed £30      
    NB. If the Water was restored the Principal Portion of this item would be abandoned.        
    Loss of time and travelling Expen~ces by reason of the destruction of Stacey Wheel where I occupied two Troughs, and I have now to go to Messrs Spear & Jackson's Wheel in Sheffield. The loss of 12/ Per Week I claim for 18 Months, as it would have been that time before my Tenancy would have determined ~ £46 16s    
    Interest on £72.9.6 at 5 Per Cent per Annum from 12 March 1864, to 29th July 1865. £5 2s    
        £127      
  Certificate Granted
3 May 1865
Assessed by Agreement incl costs at £50      

Note: Expences [sic]

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