IOR/L/L/8/88

Claim to the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division: between Henry Parsall Burt (Plaintiff) and the Secretary of State for India in Council (Defendant).

This case relates to the furlough allowance owed to Mr Burt as an engineer in the Public Works Department of India, and additional cases of pension and allowance benefits for uncovenanted servants of the Indian Civil Service. Mr Burt claimed that he entered training at the Coopers Hill Engineering College after reading the terms of employment printed in the 1875 prospectus, but that an amended prospectus for that year was released without his knowledge amending the terms, especially relating to furlough allowance. The case was dismissed.

This file includes: Statutory Declaration of Mr Henry P. Burt; Statement of Claim, delivered on 31 Jul 1902; Reply to Claim, delivered on 11 Feb 1903; Brief for Defendant; Case for the Defence; Admissions of Facts on behalf of the Plaintiff, dated 15 Jun 1903; Admissions of Facts by the Defendant, dated 30 May 1903; 1875 Prospectus for Indian Civil Engineering College, Coopers Hill, original and amended version; Case and Opinion from Horace Davey, dated 18 Nov 1886; a copy of correspondence relating to the case; Minute by General Chesney, dated 23 Jan 1890; Copy of a despatch from the Government of India, dated 17 Jan 1901, regarding memorials for Officers of the Public Works Department; Judgement, delivered on 29 Feb 1904; Associated papers and correspondence.