Hunter and Others v Attorney-General and Another
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 18 May 1899 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1899] UKHL J0518-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 18 May 1899 |
[1899] UKHL J0518-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Thursday the 17th as Monday the 21st and Tuesday the 22nd days of November 1898, upon the Petition and Appeal of William Hunter, of 57, Moorgate Street, in the City of London, Curling Hunter, of 29, Westbourne Terrace, in the county of Middlesex, Emily Hunter, of Oak Lodge, Enfield, in the same county (spinster), Frederick Hunter, of Bycullah Park, Enfield, aforesaid, Ernest Hunter, of Chilbolton, the Glebe, Enfield, aforesaid, Eliza Evelyn Edwards, of Barningham Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds, in the county of Suffolk (spinster), the Reverend Arthur William Edwards, of the same place, Alfred Clark Edwards, of the same place, Mary Anne Cooke, of 3, Edwardes Square, Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, aforesaid (widow), Mary Catling (wife of Charles Edward Catling), of London Road, Enfield, aforesaid, Agnes Catling (wife of Alfred Magnus Catling), of Chase Green Avenue, Enfield, aforesaid, Millicent Hunter Miller (wife of James Campbell Miller), of Village Road, Enfield, aforesaid, and Rachel Brand (wife of William Horne Brand), of 15, Cambridge Street, Hyde Park Square, in the county of Middlesex, aforesaid, 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 21st of May 1897, 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 Order, 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 Her Majesty's Attorney General and also upon the printed case of Francis Jacomb Hood, lodged in answer to the said Appeal: And due consideration being 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 Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 21st day of May 1897, so far as regards the words, "This Court doth order that so much of the said judgment as declared that upon the true construction of the Will of the testator Edward Hunter deceased the trusts of the said Will declared and entrusted to...
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