Henry Smith and Company v Bedouin Steam Navigation Company, Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 26 November 1895 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1895] UKHL J1126-2 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 26 November 1895 |
[1895] UKHL J1126-2
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel on Thursday and Friday last upon the Petition and Appeal of Henry Smith and Company, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Polepark Works, Polepark Road, Dundee, praying, That the matter of the Interlocutor set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Interlocutor of the Lords of Session in Scotland, of the Second Division, of the 1st of February 1895, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Interlocutor 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 Bedouin Steam Navigation Company, Limited, 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 Interlocutor of the Lords of Session in Scotland, of the Second Division, of the 1st of February 1895, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby Reversed, and that the Interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary of the 15th of December 1894, be, and the same is hereby Restored: And it is further Ordered, That the said Cause be, and the same is hereby remitted to the Court of Session in Scotland to do therein as shall be just and consistent with this Judgment: And it is further Ordered, That the Respondents do pay or cause to be paid to the said Appellants the Costs of the Action in the Court of Session: And it is further Ordered, That the Respondents do pay or cause to be paid to the Appellants the...
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