Quinn v Leathem

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeH. L.
Judgment Date05 August 1901
Judgment citation (vLex)[1901] UKHL J0805-1
Date05 August 1901
CourtHouse of Lords
Quinn
and
Leathem.

[1901] UKHL J0805-1

House of Lords

1

After hearing Counsel, as well on Tuesday the 14th, Friday the 17th, and Monday the 20th days of May last, as on Tuesday the 11th and Thursday the 13th days of June last, upon the amended Petition and Appeal of Joseph Quinn, residing at Durham Street, Belfast, in the county of Antrim, Ireland, butcher, 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 2d of May 1899, so far as therein stated to be appealed against, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order, so far as aforesaid, might be reversed, varied, or altered, and that the Petitioner might have the relief prayed for in the Appeal, or 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 Henry Leathem, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; And due consideration being had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:

2

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Court of Parliament of His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Order of Her late; Majesty's Court of Appeal in Ireland, of the 2d day of May 1899, in part 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...

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