Perth General Station Committee v Ross
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 27 July 1897 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1897] UKHL J0727-2 |
| Court | House of Lords |
[1897] UKHL J0727-2
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel as well on Tuesday the 11th as Thursday the 13th, Monday the 17th and Monday the 24th days of May last, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Perth General Station Committee incorporated by Act of Parliament, praying, That the matter of the Interlocutors set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Interlocutor of the Sheriff Substitute of Perthshire, of the 13th of February 1896, also an Interlocutor of the Sheriff of Perthshire of the 17th of April 1896, and also an Interlocutor of the Lords of Session in Scotland, of the Second Division, dated the 26th of June, and signed the 9th of July 1896, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Interlocutors 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 Alexander Ross, 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 Interlocutor of the Lords of Session in Scotland, of the Second Division, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Reversed, except in so far as it recalls the said Interlocutors of the Sheriff Substitute and of the Sheriff of Perthshire: And it is Declared, that, subject to the terms of any order or regulation which may be hereafter made by the Railway Commissioners, the Respondent, Alexander Ross, as tenant of the Royal British Hotel, Leonard Street, Perth, has no right, by himself, or his servants, to enter upon or use the Perth General Railway Station, except with the leave of the Appellants, and under such conditions as they may prescribe: And it is further Declared, That, in respect of the preceding Declaration, it is unnecessary to dispose of the conclusions of the present action for Interdict:
And it is further Ordered, That the Cause be, and the same is hereby, remitted back to the Second Division of the Court of Session, with directions to find in terms of the above declarations and to dismiss the Appellants' Petition, and to find the Defender, Alexander Ross, Respondent here, liable...
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