Assessment Committee of Holywell Union and Churchwardens, Company of Halkyn v Halkyn District Mines Drainage Company et è contra.; Assessment Committee of Holywell Union and Churchwardens, Company of Northop v Halkyn District Mines Drainage Company et è contra.; Consolidate Appeals
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 17 December 1894 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1894] UKHL J1217-2 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 17 December 1894 |
[1894] UKHL J1217-2
House of Lords
Whereas Monday the 19th day of November last was appointed for hearing Counsel upon the Petition and Appeal of the Assessment Committee of the Holywell Union, in the County of Flint, and the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Halkyn, in the said Union, 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 21st of November 1893, 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 Petitioners 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 Petition and Cross Appeal of the Halkyn District Mines Drainage Company, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 21st of November 1893, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be affirmed, with an addition thereto directing that the Costs of the Petitioners in Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, and in the Queen's Bench Divisional Court of the High Court of Justice, might be paid by the Assessment Committee of the Holywell Union and the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Halkyn mentioned in the said Schedule, or that the Petitioners 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 Petition and Appeal of the Assessment Committee of the Holywell Union, in the County of Flint, and the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Northop, in the said Union, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 21st of November 1893, 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 Petitioners might have such...
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