Guardians of the Sculcoates Union v Hull Docks Company et e Contrâ
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 23 November 1894 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1894] UKHL J1123-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 23 November 1894 |
[1894] UKHL J1123-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well yesterday as this day, upon the Petition and original Appeal of the Guardians of the Poor of the Sculcoates Union, in the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, 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 19th of March 1894, so far as therein stated to be appealed against, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order, so far as aforesaid, might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners 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 the Dock Company at Kingston-upon-Hull, lodged in answer to the said original Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents in the said original Appeal, but not called on; and also, after hearing Counsel this day upon the Petition and Cross Appeal of the said Dock Company at Kingston-upon-Hull, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 19th of March 1894, so far as therein stated to be appealed against, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order, so far as aforesaid, might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet; and also upon the printed case of the said Guardians of the Poor of the Sculcoates Union, in the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, lodged in answer to the said Cross Appeal; and due consideration had of what was offered for the Appellants in the said original Appeal, and also of what was offered on either side in the said Cross Appeal:
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 Original Appeal be, and the same is hereby dismissed this House:
And it is further Ordered and Adjudged, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 19th of March 1894, so far as regards the words, "but that the rent which a tenant would pay for the Railway and Tramway lines on the...
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