| Title: | W. H. Male, Canada, to J. E. Peel & Son, Armagh. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3683 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | male & christie/23 |
| Year | 1937 |
| Sender | Male & Christie |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | solicitors, barristers |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Peel, Joshua |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | business |
| Source | D 889/7/1: Deposited by Joshua Peel & Son, Solicitors, Armagh |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9810045 |
| Date | 23/6/1937 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 27:10:98. |
| Word Count | 985 |
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| Transcript | W. H. Male, B.A. Telephone Adelaide 1971 K. A. Christie, B.A. Cable Address: "Harmale, Toronto" MALE & CHRISTIE Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public 601 Federal Building, 85 Richmond St. West TORONTO 2, CANADA June 23rd, 1937. Messrs. Joshua E. Peel & Son, Solicitors, English Street, Armagh, N. IRELAND. Re: J. Steenson & 27 Gates Ave., Toronto. Dear Sirs: Since receiving your letter of December 17, 1936, we have written to you letters dated January 6, 1937, February 22, 1937 and May 4, 1937 but have had no further reply from you. Your letter of December 17, 1936, indicated that the documents had been signed by Mr. and Mrs. Steenson and that you would take them to Belfast or Newry to be completed by Notary. Surely this last item has been attended to and we cannot understand why you do not forward the documents on to us. So far as we know, we have done nothing to offend you in any way but if we have done or said anything at which you have taken umbrage, we sincerely apologize. We think you will appreciate that the delay is causing us great anxiety and putting us to a very great deal of trouble. In addition to correspondence in which we have engaged, our client Mr. Kesteven, constantly phones and comes to see us and asks for a report. If we had any idea that this matter would not have been attended to before this, we would have obtained an Order permitting service of the Writ of Foreclosure out of the jurisdiction and by now, our Foreclosure Action would be completed. We were led to follow our present course because Mr. and Mrs. Hooper the owners of the equity, recognized that the property was no longer worth anything more than the First Mortgage and expressed a willingness to give us a Release of their equity. Naturally, we cannot accept such Release until we have secured an Assignment of the Second Mortgage held by Mr. Steenson. We figured out the cost of Foreclosure and decided that it would be better for all concerned to use the amount of said costs in purchasing the said Assignment from Mr. Steenson and in giving a small amount to Mr. and Mrs. Hooper for their Release of Equity. It never entered our minds that it would take longer than a month to secure the Assignment from Mr. Steenson. Unfortunately, he would not reply to any of our letters and wrote instead to his friend, Mr. Thompson, of this city. Mr. Thompson went into the matter very carefully and recognized that no equity remained as security for Mr. Steenson's Mortgage. He recognized also that if we foreclosed, Mr. Steenson would secure nothing and so he decided that the payment we offered was better than nothing at all and he advised Mr. Steenson to sign the Assignment document. We felt it was necessary for us to engage a Solicitor in Armagh and Mr. Thompson recommended your firm and stated that we could absolutely rely upon your prompt attention to the matter. As you know, we wrote to you repeatedly and months elapsed before you wrote us the letter of December 17, 1936. At that time however, we felt that the delay was entirely due to the fact that Mr. Steenson had not gone to see you although we were perplexed that you had not written to us before and explained the situation. Following your letter of December we felt the matter would receive immediate attention from you and expressed our confidence in such fact to Mr. Kesteven. The subsequent delay of six months has put us in a very embarrassing position as Mr. Kesteven feels that in some way we are at fault and he cannot understand our statement that we have written to you repeatedly and received no reply. It is true that there is no immediate prospect of selling the property but our reason for special anxiety is due to the fact that Mr. Hooper is a blacksmith who shoes horses at race tracks. He moves from race track to race track and most of the year, is in the United States. He is only in the vicinity of Toronto for a short time each Fall and Spring and can only be seen at such times. We understand that he is still employed at one of the local tracks and we are hoping to receive back the papers from you in time so that we can deal with Mr. Hooper before he again leaves town. Another difficulty is the fact that both Mr. and Mrs. Hooper cannot understand why we do not complete the matter with them but naturally, we cannot do so while the Second Mortgage is outstanding. If we ever have a matter of this kind again, we will certainly stick entirely to the foreclosure proceeding and not run the risk of any delay through negotiations. We do not like however, to resume our foreclosure proceedings when this matter is so nearly completed. As we understand the situation, you have the completed documents in your possession and merely need to send them to us. We beg of you to please put the documents in an envelope and mail them to us right away. Surely one of the plans that we suggested in our previous letters must be agreeable to you. The amount involved so far as your client is concerned is very small and if the money was our own, we would gladly send it to you before you mailed the documents. The money however, belongs to Mr. Kesteven and he feels that we ought to be able to examine the documents and see that they have been fully completed in a way that will be acceptable to our Registry Office before we part with his money. We are however, willing to follow any of the plans mentioned on page four of our letter of May 4, 1937. Please follow one of such plans and we will be very grateful to you. Our client is hounding us in the matter and he is a very valuable client whom we do not wish to lose. Yours very truly, MALE & CHRISTIE W. H. Male W. H. Male. WHM./EP. Word count: 985 |
