Cory Brothers and Company, Ltd, v The Turkish Steamship "Mecca."

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtHouse of Lords
Judgment Date08 April 1897
Judgment citation (vLex)[1897] UKHL J0408-1
Date08 April 1897
Cory Brothers and Co., Limited,
and
The Turkish Steamship "Mecca."

[1897] UKHL J0408-1

House of Lords

1

After hearing Counsel, as well on Monday the 2nd as Tuesday the 3rd days of March 1896, upon the Petition and Appeal of Cory Brothers and Co., Limited, of Cardiff, in the county of Glamorgan, Colliery Proprietors, 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 4th (signed 5th) of July 1895, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or...

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