Messrs. Brownlie, Watson & Beckett,
241, St. Vincent Street,
Glasgow, C. 2.
21st February, 1957.
Dear Sirs,
Mr. George Stuart Brown and
Mr. C. Stuart Brown
We refer to our telephone talk of Tuesday and your letter of
25th ult., in which you stated that your client “when he receives
commissions due to him for 1956… “Will be able to make a
substantial payment to account”.
When he spoke to you on the telephone you informed us that your
client had received £900 to account of commissions which he estimates
at £1,500 and that he had paid the whole of this to reduce his bank
overdraft. You informed us further that he expects to receive a
lump sum payment from his company of £8,000 tax free and that the
board meeting at which this will be approved will take place in
about three weeks’ time. You also informed us that he owes a
considerable sum to the Inland Revenue and a building society and
£1,000 to your firm and that in your opinion the claims of the
family should come last.
We cannot agree that anyone who has accommodated his brother
to the extent of £3,270.8.3d as Mr. George Stuart Brown has done
should wait for payment until other creditors have been paid. We
propose, therefore, that your client should now grant to our client a
letter on the lines of the enclosed draft, in which he undertakes
(a) to pay and make over one fourth of the lump sum payment in
reduction of his indebtedness, and (b) to liquidate the balance
by arranging for payment of £100 each month to account thereof from
his salary. If your client declines to sign the enclosed letter
we shall have no alternative but to take it that he has no serious
intention of clearing his brother’s debt and that he too, in fact,
considers that he should pay off his other creditors before his family
And failing signature of a letter on the lines of the enclosed
draft within a week from this date we shall, therefore, have
nonalternative but to take proceedings and have received instructions
accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
(SGD.) MACDONALD, JAMESON & CO.
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