Re Blake. Berry v Geen

After hearing Counsel for the Appellants, as well on Monday the 7th, as on Tuesday the 8th, days of March last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Sidney Malcolm Berry, the Secretary of and suing and appealing on behalf of The Congregational Union of England and Wales, The Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, in the City of London, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 5th of February, 1937, so far as therein stated to be appealed against, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King, in His 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 His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of Harry Geen, Elizabeth Blake, Widow (since deceased), Ruby James, Married Woman, Muriel Pearl Bloomer, Married Woman, Josias Crocker Beare, Alfred Oliver Crocker, George Robert Couch, Frederick Charles Snow, Bernard Nixon Wale, Edgar William Greenslade, Reginald George Palk, John Henry Herbert Richards, Frank Ernest Wotton and Arthur Windsor, and also upon the printed Case of Frederick John Cornish, lodged in answer to the said Appeal (in which said Appeal His Majesty's Attorney-General, called as a Respondent, was stated in the case of the said Respondents, Harry Geen, Elizabeth Blake (since deceased), Ruby James, Muriel Pear Bloomer, Josias Crocker Beare, Alfred Oliver Crocker, George Robert Couch, Frederick Charles Snow, Bernard Nixon Wale, Edgar William Greenslade, Reginald George Palk, John Henry Herbert Richards, Frank Ernest Wotton and Arthur Windsor, to be concerned only for the protection of the will of Charles Davey Blake, deceased, and did not lodge a separate Case in answer thereto); and Counsel appearing for the Respondents but not being called upon; and due consideration being had this day of what was offered for the said Appellants.

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 His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 5th day of February, 1937, 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 House: And it is further Ordered, That the costs of all parties in respect of the said Appeal to this House, be taxed as between Solicitor and Client and paid out of the Testator's Estate, the amount thereof to be certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments.

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After hearing Counsel, as well on Thursday the 10th, as on Friday the 11th, Monday the 14th and Tuesday the 15th, days of March last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Agnes Emily De La Poer Beresford, Married Woman, Administratrix with the Will annexed of the Estate of Charles William St. John Rowlandson, deceased, of "Ballybrack," Copthorne Common, Copthorne, Sussex, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 7th of April 1937, so far as therein stated to be appealed against, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order, so far as aforesaid, might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioner might have such other relief in the premises as to His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of the Royal Insurance Company, Limited, 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 His Majesty the King assembled, That the said Order of His Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 7th day of April 1937, 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 House: And it is further Ordered, That the Appellant do pay, or cause to be paid, to the said Respondents the Costs incurred by them in respect of the said Appeal, the amount thereof to be certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments.