Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Ltd, and Others v Castaneda and Others
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 17 November 1904 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1904] UKHL J1117-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
[1904] UKHL J1117-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well on Tuesday last as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Limited, having its Registered Office at Clydebank, Dumbartonshire, now in liquidation, and Charles Ker, 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, and William Barclay Peat, of 3 Lothbury, London, Liquidators thereof, 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 February 1903, and also an Interlocutor of the Lords of Session there, of the Second Division, of the 17th of June 1903, 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 His Excellency Rear-Admiral Don Jose Ramos Yzquierdo v Castaneda, the Spanish Minister of Marine in Madrid, Don Manuel Diaz e Iglesias, Chief of the Spanish Royal Naval Commission, Don Diego de Tapia, Commissary of the same, and the said Spanish Royal Naval Commission, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents, but not being called on; and due consideration being had of what was offered for the said Appellants:
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...
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