De Nicols v Curlier and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 15 December 1899 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1899] UKHL J1215-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 15 December 1899 |
[1899] UKHL J1215-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel as well on Friday the 23rd and Tuesday the 27th days of June, as Monday the 3rd and Monday the 10th days of July 1899, upon the Petition and Appeal of C�lestine de Nicols, of Regent House, Surbiton, in the county of Surrey, widow, 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 19th of May 1898, except so far as regards the words "And it is ordered that the Costs of, and occasioned by, this Appeal be costs in this matter and action," might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order, except so far as aforesaid, might be reversed, varied, or altered, 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 Joint Case of the said Appellant and the Respondents Emma Josephine, the widow of George Pigache, Emma de Bruille, and Blanche Pigache, (since deceased), Louise Pigache, Camille Pigache, Cecile Pigache, Daniel Pigache, and George Pigache, respectively infants, by Edmund Distin Maddick, their guardian ad litem, and also upon the printed Case of the Respondents Felix Curlier, Jean Joseph Kopp, and Thomas William Courtenay, lodged in the said Appeal; And due consideration being 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 19th of May 1898, so far as complained of, be, and the same is hereby, Reversed; and that the Order of Mr. Justice Kekewich, of the 3rd of...
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