Maddison v Alderson
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 04 June 1883 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1883] UKHL J0604-2 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 04 June 1883 |
[1883] UKHL J0604-2
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel, as well on Tuesday the 17th as Thursday the 19th, Friday the 20th, and Monday the 23d days of April last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Elizabeth Maddison, of Lands Cottage, near Cockfield, in the county of Durham, spinster, 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 13th of April 1881, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, and that the Order thereby rescinded might be affirmed, or that the Petitioner might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet;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 John Alderson, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration 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 13th of April 1881, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby Affirmed, and that the said Petition and Appeal be,...
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