Leyland Shipping Company, Ltd v Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 31 January 1918 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1918] UKHL J0131-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 31 January 1918 |
Leyland Shipping Company, Limited
and
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Limited.
[1918] UKHL J0131-1
House of Lords
1
After hearing Counsel, as well on Monday the 10th, as Tuesday the 11th, and Thursday the 13th, days of December last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Leyland Shipping Company, Limited, of 54 Browns Buildings, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, praying, that the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 26th of February 1917, might be reviewed...
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