R v Sheward

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1879
Year1879
CourtCourt of Appeal
[IN THE COURT OF APPEAL.]THE QUEENv.SHEWARD.1880 June 29.BRAMWELL, BAGGALLAY and BRETT, L.JJ.

Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict.c. 18) - Compensation - Matter not legally the subject of Compensation - Application to quash Inquisition - Certiorari, Writ of - Discretion.

Application having been made to the High Court of Justice for a writ of certiorari, to bring up and quash the proceedings upon an inquisition before the sheriff as to the amount of compensation to be awarded to a claimant under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, on the ground that the jury in assessing the compensation had taken into consideration matters which were not legally the subject of compensation; it was proved that the applicants for the writ had allowed five months to expire without taking any objection to the proceedings:—

Held, that as the time allowed for setting aside an award made under the provisions of the above-mentioned Act had expired before the application was made, the writ of certiorari ought not to be granted.

APPEAL by the Metropolitan and St. John's Wood Railway Company against the discharge of a rule for a writ of certiorari, to bring up the proceedings taken before the sheriff of Middlesex with respect to a claim for compensation under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845.

The facts are fully stated in the report of the judgment in the Queen's Bench Division.F1

Mr. Sheward, the claimant, had a leasehold interest in certain premises on which he trained and exercised steeplechase horses and hunters. The railway company had power to take these premises compulsorily by virtue of their special Act which incorporated the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. In December, 1875, the company gave the usual notice to treat, and in February, 1879, an inquisition was taken before the under-sheriff of Middlesex, when the jury assessed...

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