Lord Mayor, Company of Bradford v Myers
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 12 November 1915 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1915] UKHL J1112-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 12 November 1915 |
[1915] UKHL J1112-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well on Tuesday the 20th, as Wednesday the 21st, days of July last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Bradford, 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 2d of November 1914, 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 Eric Stuart Myers, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the Respondent, but not being called on; and due consideration being had this day of what was offered for the said Appellants:
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 2d day of November 1914, 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 Appellants do pay, or cause to be...
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