Donald Campbell and Company, Ltd and Others v Pollak

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 February 1924
Judgment citation (vLex)[1924] UKHL J0201-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Date01 February 1924

[1924] UKHL J0201-1

House of Lords

Donald Campbell and Company, Limited and Others
and
Pollak.
1

After hearing Counsel, as well on Thursday the 24th and Friday the 25th, days of January last, and on Monday and Tuesday last, as yesterday and this day. upon the Petition and Appeal of Donald Campbell and Company, Limited, John Donington Campbell, George Charles Skeates, and George Islay campbell. all of No. 10, St. Mary Axe, in the City of London, 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 2d of February 1923, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, and that the Petitioners might have the relief prayed for in the Appeal, or 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 Raymond Pollak, lodged in answer to the said Appeal (in which said...

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