Mayor, Company of Tunbridge Wells v Baird and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 04 May 1896 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1896] UKHL J0504-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 04 May 1896 |
[1896] UKHL J0504-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well on Friday last as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Tunbridge Wells, 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 20th of March 1894, 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 Judgment of the Hon. Mr. Justice Grantham, dated the 12th of April 1893, mentioned in the said Order, might be restored, and that the Respondents George Gosset Baird, Frank Osborne Baird, and Mary Anne Weller, Widow, who were the Plaintiffs in the action mentioned in the Schedule thereto, might be ordered to pay the Costs of such action in both Courts, or that the Petitioners 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 George Gosset Baird, Frank Osborne Baird, and Mary Anne Weller, Widow, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents, but not being called on, and due consideration had 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 Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 20th of March 1894, complained of in the said Appeal,...
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