Farquharson Brothers and Company v J. King and Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 17 June 1902 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1902] UKHL J0617-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 17 June 1902 |
[1902] UKHL J0617-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Friday last as Monday last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Farquharson Brothers and Company, of 85 Grace-church Street, in the City of London, 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 20th of July 1901, 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 J. King and Company, 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 20th day of July 1901, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Reversed : And it is further Ordered, That the Judgment of Mr. Justice Mathew, of the 19th day of June 1901, thereby set aside, be, and the same is hereby, Restored : And it is further Ordered, That the Respondents do pay or cause to be paid to the said Appellants the costs incurred by them in the Courts below, and also the costs incurred by them in respect of the said Appeal to this House, the amount...
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