Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company Ltd v Selfridge & Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 26 April 1915 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1915] UKHL J0426-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 26 April 1915 |
[1915] UKHL J0426-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well on Tuesday the 23d, as Thursday the 25th, days of March 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 22d of January 1914, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order 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 Selfridge and Company, Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the Respondents, but not being called on; and due consideration being had this day 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 Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 22d day of January 1914, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is 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 Appellants do pay, or cause to be paid,...
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