Browne v Dunn
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 28 November 1893 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1893] UKHL J1128-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 28 November 1893 |
[1893] UKHL J1128-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellant, as well on Friday last as yesterday and this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of James Loxham Browne, of Woodbine Cottage, The Vale, Hampstead, in the county of Middlesex, 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 7th of March 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 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 Cecil William Dunn (Defendant below), lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the said Respondent, but not called on; and due consideration had of what was offered for the said Appellant:
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 7th of March 1893, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby dismissed this House: And it is further Ordered, That the Appellant do pay or cause to be paid to the...
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