McEntire and Maconchy v Crossley Brothers, Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 13 May 1895 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1895] UKHL J0513-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 13 May 1895 |
[1895] UKHL J0513-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well on Friday last as this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of Alexander Knox McEntire and John Arthur Maconchy, the Official Assignees of the Court of Bankruptcy in Ireland, being the Assignees of the estate and effects of Thomas Frederick Peel, of No. 6, Cathedral Place, Limerick, a Bankrupt, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal in Ireland, of the 2nd of February 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, 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 Crossley Brothers, Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents, but not 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 in Ireland, of the 2nd of February 1894, 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...
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