Excelsior Wire Rope Company Ltd v Callan
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 06 February 1930 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1930] UKHL J0206-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 06 February 1930 |
[1930] UKHL J0206-1
House of Lords
Excelsior Wire Rope Company, Limited
and
Callan and Others.
1
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well on Tuesday the 4th day of this instant February as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of Excelsior Wire Rope Company, Limited, whose registered office is situate at North Road, Maindy, Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, 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 12th of November 1928, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King, in His Court of...
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