Clippens Oil Company, Ltd, v Edinburgh and District Water Trustees (Declarator)
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 07 December 1903 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1903] UKHL J1207-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 07 December 1903 |
[1903] UKHL J1207-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Monday the 27th, as Tuesday the 28th, days of July last, upon the Petition and Appeal of The Clippens Oil Company, Limited, incorporated in terms of the Companies Acts, praying, That the matter of the Interlocutors set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary in Scotland, of the 28th of June 1900, and also Two Interlocutors of the Lords of Session there, of the First Division, of the 27th of November 1900, and the 1st of February 1901 respectively, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Interlocutors might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed case of the Edinburgh and District Water Trustees, incorporated under the Edinburgh and District Waterworks Act, 1869, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Interlocutors, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same are 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 Appellants do pay, or cause to be paid, to the said Respondents the costs incurred in respect of the said Appeal, the amount thereof to be certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments: And it is also further Ordered, That unless the costs, certified...
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