The School, Malvern Link, Case

Volume comprising papers relating to the case of Wilson et al v. The Great Western Railway Company, 1907-1908, including statement of proof by Sanitary Inspector Henry Hillyard; certificates of analyses of spring, tap and tank water and milk; inspection reports on the Malvern Tunnel; correspondence; memoranda; pictures, maps and plans of Malvern and water supply to the school; press cuttings on the history of Malvern water and litigation cases; some papers re case of Hope v. Fergusson [details of case not included] 1906-1910.

1907-1908

1 file

This case, Wilson v. The Great Western Railway Company, centred around an action brought on behalf of Mr William Douglas, proprietor of The School, Malvern Link. Douglas claimed that the railway company was in breach of an agreement made in the 1860s by its predecessor company with the Great Malvern Hotel Company, (whose property, the Malvern Link Hotel, had stood on the site of Douglas' school), to supply water fit for drinking purposes, via the springs in a tunnel owned by the railway company. Following a complaint to the UDC, and recent cases of typhoid at the school, Hillyard inspected the Malvern Tunnel and found there to be an open-jointed pipe running under the sleepers and in no way protected against pollution. The judge found that there was no breach of covenant by the railway company and the action failed.