The answer is Clark vs. Outhred, and an undated letter written sometime during the 1900's by John (Juan) Hudson:
In 1875 Susannah Hudson Clark sued Ann Hudson Outhred and her husband Joseph (the complaint originally misnamed him as Thomas). The complaint and response substantiate everything written by John: about Henry's will, his daughter Ann, Henry's land in Linthorpe, the sale of portions of that land to Middlesbrough for a workhouse and cemetery,the distribution of income but not principal from the estate during Ann's lifetime, and the fact that Ann, age 56 in 1875,would ultimately die without having had any children so that a search for Henry's heirs would be required.
The 1875 pleading and answers from January 1876 are on file in the British National Archives at Kew, reference C16/999/C295 and C290. The short names of the cases are "Clark v Outhred" and "Clark v Trustees of the Middlesbrough Poor Union". Any judicial decrees or orders would be in the J15 files at the National Archives at Kew, which are not yet online as of September 2016. We searched the indexes through 1879 but didn't find anything more regarding the suit. Possibly it was dropped after the Outhred's answered in 1876, or possibly something more happened after 1879. John Hudson wrote that Ann's search for the beneficiaries of the trust began in 1885, which may have been in reaction to a subsequent court order.
When we next return to Kew we should continue looking through the J15 indexes from 1880 - 1885. However, the parish records for Patrick Brompton record the death of a Susannah Clark in July 1876. It may be that the lawsuit simply failed to continue after the death of the lead plaintiff.
