Barber et Al v Meyerstein
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 22 February 1870 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1870] UKHL J0222-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 22 February 1870 |
[1870] UKHL J0222-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well yesterday as this day, upon an Appeal wherein Charles Barber, Edward Barber, and Frederick John Barber are Appellants, and William Meyerstein is Respondent; complaining (upon a Case stated by the said parties, pursuant to the provisions of "The Common Law Procedure Act," 17th & 18th Victoria, Cap. 125.,) of a Judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber, of the 20th of June 1867, affirming a Judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, of the 24th of November 1866; and praying their Lordships to reverse, vary, or alter the said Judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber, and to give such Judgment in the premises as to this House, in their Lordships great wisdom, may seem meet; and Counsel appearing for the Respondent in the said Appeal, the Counsel were directed to withdraw; and due consideration being had of what was offered for the Appellants:
Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, That the said Judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber, of the 20th of June 1867, affirming the said Judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, of the 24th of November 1866, and also the said Judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, be, and the same are hereby Affirmed, and that the said Appeal be, and the same is hereby dismissed this House: And it is also further Ordered, That the said Appellants, Charles Barber, Edward Barber, and Frederick John Barber, do pay or...
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