Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company v New Garage and Motor Company
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 01 July 1914 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1914] UKHL J0701-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 01 July 1914 |
Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, Limited,
and
New Garage and Motor Company, Limited.
[1914] UKHL J0701-1
House of Lords
1
After hearing Counsel, as well on Monday the 18th, as Tuesday the 19th, days of May last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Dunlop, Pneumatic Tyre Company, Limited, of 14 Regent Street, in the City of Westminster, 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 29th of January 1914, so far as regards the words, "It is Ordered that this Appeal be allowed and that the said Certificate or Finding and so much of the said Judgment signed thereon for the sum of 250 l. and costs of the Enquiry be set aside and instead thereof that Judgment be entered for the Plaintiffs for the sum of 2 l. as nominal damages; and it is Ordered that the Plaintiffs pay to the...
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