Addis v Gramophone Company, Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 26 July 1909 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1909] UKHL J0726-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 26 July 1909 |
[1909] UKHL J0726-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Friday the 25th, as Monday the 28th, and Tuesday the 29th, days of June last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Thomas Dowle Addis, of White Lodge, Peterstow, near Ross-on-Wye, in the County of Hereford, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 5th of February 1909, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His 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 His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of the Gramophone Company, Limited (sued as the Gramophone and Typewriter, Limited), lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 5th day of February 1909, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Reversed, and that Judgment be entered for the Appellant for 340 l. 1s. On His Claim: And it is hereby Declared, That the Appellant is entitled to be credited in the account ordered to be taken by an Official Referee, or other person agreed upon, with salary at the rate of 15 l. per week, from the 1st day of October 1905 to the 1st day of April 1906 (being a period of twenty-six weeks), and with all commissions earned by the Calcutta Agency of the Respondents in the said period, and payable to the Appellant under the agreement of the 26th day of September 1902, and that the said account remains to be taken in this Action: And it is further Ordered, That...
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