Seaton v Burnand et è contra
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 27 February 1900 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1900] UKHL J0227-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
[1900] UKHL J0227-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel as well yesterday as this day upon the Petition and Appeal of Louisa Christian Seaton (married woman), residing at 11, Victoria Road, 'Kensington, London, praying, That the matter of the Order, set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 25th of March 1899), might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that, the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioner might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the Petition and Cross Appeal of Percy George Calvert Burnand, carrying on business at Lloyd's and at 33, Cornhill, both in the City of London, praying that the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 25th of March 1899, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioner might have 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 the said Louisa Christian Seaton, and also upon the printed case of the said Percy George Calvert Burnand (in the Original Petition of Appeal styled Percy Burnand), lodged in the said Original and Cross Appeals; And due consideration being had of what was offered on either side in these Appeals :
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 25th of March 1899, be, and the same is hereby, Reversed, and that the Judgment of Mr. Justice Bigham, of the 12th of January 1899, be, and the same is...
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