North-Eastern Railway Company v Lord Hastings
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 05 April 1900 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1900] UKHL J0405-2 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 05 April 1900 |
[1900] UKHL J0405-2
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel as well on Thursday the 22nd as Friday the 23rd, and Tuesday the 27th days of March last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the North-Eastern Railway Company, whose head office is at the City of York, 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 7th of March 1899, 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 the Right Honourable George Manners, Baron Hastings, lodged in answer to 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 7th of March 1899, 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 paid,...
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