Rylands and Another v Fletcher
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 17 July 1868 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1868] UKHL J0717-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 17 July 1868 |
Rylands & Ano r
and
Fletcher (in Error):
[1868] UKHL J0717-1
House of Lords
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Whereas by virtue of a Suggestion of Error entered upon the Judgment Roll in the Court of Exchequer, at the Instance of John Rylands and Jehu Horrocks (Defendants there), in a Cause wherein Thomas Fletcher was Plaintiff, and the said John Rylands and Jehu Horrocks were Defendants, the said Judgment Roll and Proceedings of the said Court of Exchequer were brought into this House on the 23d Day of May 1867, in order to reverse a Judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber on a special Case, reversing a Judgment of the said Court of Exchequer, for the said John Rylands and Jehu Horrocks, Defendants there (Plaintiffs in Error); and Counsel having been heard, as well on Monday the 6th as Tuesday the 7th Days of this instant July, to argue the Error so suggested as aforesaid; and due Consideration being had this Day of what was offered on either Side in this Cause:
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It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, That the said Judgment given in the said Court of Exchequer Chamber, reversing...
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