Foakes v Beer
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 16 May 1884 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1884] UKHL J0516-2 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 16 May 1884 |
[1884] UKHL J0516-2
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Monday the 31st day of March last as Tuesday the 1st day of April last, upon the Petition and Appeal of John Weston Foakes, of No. 45, South Street, Grosvenor Square, in the county of Middlesex, Doctor in Medicine, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 23d of June 1883, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioner might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of Julia Beer, 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 Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 23d of June 1883, 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 Appellant do pay or cause to be paid to the said Respondent the...
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