Lincolns Inn <1>
25th Aug 1857
My dear Sir
I send You the answer of Mr Loxley <2> declining to furnish the copy of Mr Hindmarsh’s opinion <3> so we must form a judgment without it – as that will be done most probably upon other grounds it is not of so much consequence –
Ever Yours faithfully
J. H Bolton
[enclosure: copy (in another hand) of Fry & Loxley to Price Bolton & Filder]
Copy,
80 Cheapside, London E. C.
25 August 1857.
Dr Sirs,
Talbot v Walker
We regret we cannot comply with your request by furnishing a copy of Mr Hindmarsh’s opinion It seems to us, as we stated when we had the pleasure of seeing you, that no argument founded upon the specification is likely to convince when an opposite opinion is strongly impressed upon the mind. But the case may be viewed by all parties as one not free from difficulty and properly therefore the subject of a compromise. –
Dear Sirs,
Yours faithy
(sd) Fry & Loxley
Messrs Price Bolton & Filder
Notes:
1. One of the four Inns of Court, the ‘colleges’ of barristers at the English Bar. Bolton had his chambers [lawyer’s offices and, at the time, living-quarters also] there.
2. Of Fry and Loxley, solicitors for the Patent Photogalvanographic Company with whom Talbot was in dispute regarding his patent for photographic engraving. See Doc. No: 07807. The other partner, Peter Wickens Fry, had been a prominent opponent of Talbot’s photographic patents.
3. Bolton had repeatedly requested Fry and Loxley to hand over the barrister’s opinion [see Doc. No: 07431].