Hardy v Fothergill
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 12 June 1888 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1888] UKHL J0612-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 12 June 1888 |
[1888] UKHL J0612-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel on Monday the 23rd day of April last, upon the Petition and Appeal of George Hardy, of Ashbourne Cottage, London Road, Croydon, in the county of Surrey, and Benjamin Buck Greene, of New Square, in the county of Middlesex, praying, That the matter of the Judgment set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, a Judgment of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 21st of March 1887, 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 Judgment, 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 Richard Fothergill, 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 Judgment of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 21st of March 1887, 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 Appellants do pay or cause to...
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