Barraclough v Brown and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date19 July 1897
Judgment citation (vLex)[1897] UKHL J0719-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Date19 July 1897

[1897] UKHL J0719-1

House of Lords

Barraclough
and
Brown and Others.
1

After hearing Counsel for the Appellant, as well on Friday the 28th and Monday the 31st days of May, as Tuesday the 1st day of June last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Samuel Barraclough, the Secretary and Public Officer duly appointed to sue and suing on behalf of the Undertakers of the Navigation of the Rivers Aire and Calder, 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 March 1896, 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 the Petitioner might have the relief prayed for in the Appeal, or 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 James Brown, Samuel Alexander Sadler, Richard Verrill, Edward Henry Knowthwaite, Alexander Petrie, Thomas William Spink Locke, John Christopher Simpson, Marianne Townsend, John Milner Lennard, Edward Kirby, William Lennard, and Rosa Lennard (the Owners of the Steamship "J. M. Lennard"), lodged in answer to the said Appeal, and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents, but not being called on, and due consideration had this day of what was offered for the said Appellant:

2

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 4th of March 1896, complained of in...

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