Hughes v Metropolitan Railway Company
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 05 June 1877 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1877] UKHL J0605-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 05 June 1877 |
[1877] UKHL J0605-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellant this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of Thomas Hughes, 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 16th of February 1876, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioner 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 Metropolitan Railway Company lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the Respondents in the said Appeal, the Counsel were directed to withdraw; and due consideration had of what was offered for the Appellant:
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 16th of February 1876, 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, That the Appellant do pay or cause to be paid to the said Respondents the Costs...
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