Brocklesby v Temperance Permanent Building Society and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date15 March 1895
Judgment citation (vLex)[1895] UKHL J0315-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Date15 March 1895

[1895] UKHL J0315-1

House of Lords

Brocklesby
and
Temperance Permanent Building Society and Others.
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After hearing Counsel for the Appellant, as well yesterday as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of George Jobson Brocklesby, of 9, Walbrook, in the City of London, praying, That the matter of the Order and Judgment set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 3rd of July 1893, and also a Judgment of the High Court of Justice of the 7th of March 1893, so far as therein stated to be appealed against, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order and Judgment, so far as aforesaid, might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioner 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 printed Case of the Temperance Permanent Building Society, and also upon the printed Case of the Nineteenth Century Building Society, lodged in answer to the said Appeal (in which said Appeal the Respondents, the Temperance Permanent Building Society, were, by an Order of this House of the 7th of this instant March, allowed to lodge a separate Case, the question of the costs incurred thereby being reserved to the Hearing at the Bar; and which said Appeal was, in pursuance of an Order of this House of the 3rd of December 1894, heard ex parte as to Joseph Corke, he not having answered the said Appeal); and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents, the Temperance Permanent Building Society and the Nineteenth Century Building Society, but not called on; and due consideration had of what was offered for the said Appellant:

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It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the...

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