Sedgwick (Revenue Officer for Camberwell) v Watney, Combe, Reid and Company, Ltd and Others (ex parte as to Certain Respondents)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date06 March 1931
Judgment citation (vLex)[1931] UKHL J0306-5
CourtHouse of Lords

[1931] UKHL J0306-5

House of Lords

Sedgwick (Revenue Officer for Camberwell)
and
Watney, Combe, Reid and Company, Limited and Others (Ex Parte as to Certain Respondents).
1

After hearing Counsel, as well on Tuesday the 3d as on Thursday the 5th, days of February last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Percy George Sedgwick, of 1, Lewisham Hill, Lewisham. S.E.13, the Revenue Officer for Camberwell, 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 11th of July 1930, might be reviewed before His Majesty the King, in his 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 His Majesty the King, in His Court of Parliament, might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of Watney. Combe, Reid and Company, Limited, lodged in answer to the said Appeal (which said Appeal was, in pursuance of an Order of this House, of the 17th day of December last, heard ex parte as to the Assessment Committee for the Borough of Camberwell Assessment Area and the Rating Authority of the Borough of Camberwell, they not having lodged a printed Case, in answer to the said Appeal though ordered so to do); and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:

2

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 11th day of July 1930, 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,...

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