Clover, Clayton and Company, Ltd v Hughes
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 14 March 1910 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1910] UKHL J0314-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 14 March 1910 |
[1910] UKHL J0314-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Monday the 31st day of January, as on Tuesday the 1st day of February last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Clover, Clayton and Company, Limited, whose Registered Office is at Rose Brae, Birkenhead, in the County of Chester, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 22d of July 1909, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order 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 Ann Hughes, 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 Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 22d day of July 1909, 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 Appellants do pay, or cause to be paid, to...
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