Abrath v North-Eastern Railway Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 15 March 1886 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1886] UKHL J0315-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 15 March 1886 |
[1886] UKHL J0315-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellant, as well on Thursday and Friday last as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of Gustav Adolph Abrath, of Borough Road, in the borough of Sunderland, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 22d of June 1883, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioner might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of the North-Eastern Railway Company, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the Respondents, but not being called on; and due consideration had of what was offered for the Appellant:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 22d of June 1883, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby dismissed this House: And it is further Ordered, That the Appellant do pay or cause to be paid to the...
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