London County Council v Attorney-General and Others

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date07 February 1902
Judgment citation (vLex)[1902] UKHL J0207-1
CourtHouse of Lords

[1902] UKHL J0207-1

House of Lords

London County Council
and
Attorney-General and Others.
1

After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well yesterday as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of the London County Council, of the County Hall, Spring Gardens, in the County of London, 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 28th of February 1901, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to His Majesty the King in His Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed case of His Majesty's Attorney-General, and William Henry Birch, John Manley Birch, William Samuel Birch, T. and H. Cane, G. and H. Glover, Philip Willing Tibbs, Charles William French, William and Henry Clinch, Samuel Crews, Edward Burridge and Son, Goode and Cooper, Tom Brickland, The Omnibus Proprietors, Limited, The London Omnibus Carriage Company, The Star Omnibus Company, London, Limited, The London Road Car Company, Limited, and the London General Omnibus Company, Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents, but not being called on; and due consideration being had of what was offered for the said Appellants:

2

It is Ordered and Adjudged by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 28th day of February 1901, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Affirmed, and...

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