Lindo (Agent of Paul Robbrecht, Owner of La Laure) v The King
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 30 May 1836 |
| Date | 30 May 1836 |
| Court | Privy Council |
English Reports Citation: 12 E.R. 711
ON APPEAL FROM THE VICE ADMIRALTY COURT OF SIERRA LEONE.
Mews' Dig. tit. Colony; III. Appeals to Privy Council; 6. Practice; a. Time and Extension thereof. Cf. Cremidi v. Parker, 1856, 1857, 11 Moo. P.C. 79.
ON APPEAL FROM THE VICE ADMIRALTY COURT OF SIERRA LEONE. ELIAS HAIN LINDO, the lawful Agent of PAUL ROBBRECHT, the sole Owner of the French Ship or Vessel La Laure,-Appellant; OUR SOVEREIGN LORD THE KING,-Respondent [May 30, 1836]. After a delay of six years the Judicial Committee refused to grant leave to prosecute an appeal, though the delay arose from circumstances over which it was sworn the appellant had no control. The petition of appeal in this case was presented in July 1835, and stated, that by a sentence in the Admiralty Court of Sierra Leone, pronounced on the 18th November 129, the ship La Laure was condemned and forfeited to His Majesty. That Captain Jastram, the master, having no agent at Sierra Leone, or means to procure professional advice, was ignorant of the grounds on which the vessel was condemned; that Paul Robbrecht, the owner, though informed of the condemnation of the ship, was unaware of the grounds on which the sentence of condemnation was founded, and ignorant of any limita-[4]-tion as to the time of appealing against the sentence, and was in consequence of such condemnation, until the year 1833, in a state of pecuniary embarrassment, and unable to obtain funds for appealing from the decree of condemnation : that in the beginning of 1832...
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