The claims concerned the estate of Monica Lane (the deceased), who died on 8 May 2019. The deceased had three children, David, Susan (the first defendant) and Peter, the last of whom predeceased her leaving two children, the second and third defendants. David died on 17 January 2021 and Karen (the claimant) was David’s widow and personal representative of his estate.
The deceased and David formed a trading farming partnership, embodied in a 12 October 2002 partnership agreement. That agreement provided that the partnership would dissolve on, among other things, permanent incapacit...
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The Brindle Estate near Chorley belonged to Patience Aspinall, who died in 1985. The Estate passed to her sister Honour Ruth (‘Miss Aspinall’) as her executor and sole beneficiary. In the early 1990s, the Brindle Estate was subject to compulsory purchase for the construction of the M65 motorway over the northern part. By February 1994, the Department of Transfer had entered upon the land for the purpose of commencing construction. Miss Aspinall received interim payments on account of the compensation payable to her arising from construction of the M65, in particular, £46,727 in October 1...