O'Rourke v Darbishire
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 26 February 1920 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1920] UKHL J0226-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 26 February 1920 |
O'Rourke
and
Darbishire and Others.
[1920] UKHL J0226-1
House of Lords
1
After bearing Counsel, as well on Tuesday the 20th, as Thursday the 22d, Friday the 23d, Monday the 26th, Tuesday the 27th and Thursday the 29th, days of January last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Hugh O'Rourke, of 9, Briardale Gardens, Platts Lane, Hampstead, in the County 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 3d of December 1918, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, and that the said Order 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 His Majesty the King, in his Court of Parliament,...
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