Allen v Flood and Another
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Judgment Date | 14 December 1897 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1897] UKHL J1214-1 |
| Date | 14 December 1897 |
Allen
and
Flood and Another.
[1897] UKHL J1214-1
House of Lords
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Whereas Counsel were heard as well on Tuesday the 10th as Thursday the 12th, Monday the l6th, and Tuesday the 17th days of December 1895, upon the Petition and Appeal of Thomas Francis Allen, of 19, Birchfield Street, East India Dock Road, Middlesex, the London Delegate of the United Society of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders, 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 4th of April, 1895, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, and that so much of the Judgment entered at the trial of the Cause before the Honourable Mr. Justice Kennedy and a Common Jury...
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