Donald Campbell and Company, Ltd and Others v Pollak
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 01 February 1924 |
Judgment citation (vLex) | [1924] UKHL J0201-1 |
Court | House of Lords |
Date | 01 February 1924 |
[1924] UKHL J0201-1
House of Lords
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 Appeal the matter of the Petition of the Respondent, presented on the 14th day of May last, praying that he might have leave to adduce a certain document as evidence on the hearing of the Appeal, was, by an Order of this House, of the 24th day of January last, reserved to the hearing of the Appeal at the Bar); and due consideration had 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 2d day of February 1923, complained of in the said Appeal, be and the same is hereby, Reversed, so far as regards the Action (hereinafter called "the First Action"), the short title whereof is " 1921 C. No. 2469, Campbell and others v. Pollak and another," and that the Order of Mr. Justice Darling, of the 20th day of October 1922, thereby set aside, be, and the same is hereby, Restored so far as regards that Action: And it is further Ordered, That the said Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 2d day of February 1923, be, and the same is hereby, Affirmed, so far as regards the Action (hereinafter called "the Second Action"), the short title whereof is " 1921 D. No. 1456, Donald Campbell and Company, Limited v. Pollak and another," and that the said Petition and Appeal be, and the same is hereby, so far as aforesaid, dismissed...
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