Hardy v Fothergill

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date12 June 1888
Judgment citation (vLex)[1888] UKHL J0612-1
CourtHouse of Lords
Date12 June 1888

[1888] UKHL J0612-1

House of Lords

Hardy and Another
and
Fothergill.
1

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...

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