Ertel Bieber & Company v Rio Tinto Company ; Dynamit Actien-Gesellschaft v Rio Tinto Company ; Vereinigte Koenigs and Laurahuette Actien-Gesellschaft v Rio Tinto Company
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 25 January 1918 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1918] UKHL J0125-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 25 January 1918 |
[1918] UKHL J0125-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Tuesday the 27th, as Thursday the 29th, days of November last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Vereinigte Koenigs and Laurahuette Actien-Gesellschaft fuer Bergbau and Huettenbetrieb, of Berlin, in the German Empire, 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 25th of July 1917, 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 the Rio Tinto Company, Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day 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 25th day of July 1917, 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...
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