Guardians of West Derby Union v Metropolitan Life Assurance Society and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 23 July 1897 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1897] UKHL J0723-3 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 23 July 1897 |
[1897] UKHL J0723-3
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants this day upon the Petition and Appeal of the Guardians of the Poor of the West Derby Union, in the County of Lancaster, 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 20th of February 1897, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, and that the Petitioners might have the relief prayed for in the Appeal, or 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 Metropolitan Life Assurance Society, Henry William Dauglish, and Richard Bankes Barron, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents, but not being called on, and due consideration 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 Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 20th of February 1897, 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,...
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