Clippens Oil Company Ltd v Edinburgh and District Water Trustees
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 11 June 1907 |
| Date | 11 June 1907 |
| Docket Number | No. 6.,No. 3. |
| Court | House of Lords |
[1907] UKHL J0611-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Tuesday the 12th, as Wednesday the 13th, Thursday the 14th, and Monday the 18th, days of March last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Clippens Oil Company Limited, incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1890, and having their Registered Office at Pentland Works, Loanhead, Midlothian, praying, That the matter of the Interlocutors set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary in Scotland, of the 18th of March 1905; and also an Interlocutor of the Lords of Session there, of the First Division, of the 20th of March 1906, so far as therein stated to be appealed against, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Interlocutors, so far as aforesaid, 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 Petition and Cross Appeal of the Edinburgh and District Water Trustees, incorporated under the Edinburgh and District Waterworks Act, 1869, praying, That the matter of the Interlocutors set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely the said Interlocutor of the said Lord Ordinary in Scotland, of the 18th of March 1905, also the said Interlocutor of the said Lords of Session there, of the First Division, of the 20th of March 1906, and also another Interlocutor of the said Lords of Session there, of the First Division, of the 20th March 1906, 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 said Edinburgh and District Water Trustees, and also upon the printed case of the said Clippens Oil Company, Limited, lodged in the said Original and Cross Appeals; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in these Appeals:
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 Original and Cross...
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