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
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 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 Leslie Daniel Callan and Eileen Callan, (by John Patrick Callan their father and next friend), and the said John Patrick Callan, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the Respondents, but not being called upon; and due consideration being had 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 12th day of November 1928, 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...
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