Sharp (Official Receiver) v Jackson and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 15 June 1899 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1899] UKHL J0615-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 15 June 1899 |
[1899] UKHL J0615-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellant this day upon the Petition and Appeal of Luke Jesson Sharp, the Official Receiver and Trustee of the property of Courtenay Connell Prance and George Henry Garrard, Bankrupts, praying, That the matter of the Orders and Judgment set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 13th of May 1897; and also a Judgment and Order of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, of the 6th of March 1897, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Orders and Judgment 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 Reverend Frederick Campbell Cardew, Edmund Ford Kent, George Leonard Wenden, Alfred Hardman, and Catherine Hunting, lodged in answer to the said Appeal (which said Appeal was, in pursuance of an Order of this House, of the 9th day of February last, heard ex parte as to the Respondent Alfred Herbert Jackson, he not having lodged a printed case in answer to the said Appeal, though ordered so to do), and Counsel appearing for the said Respondents, who had lodged a printed case, but not being called on; And due consideration being had of what was offered for the said Appellant:
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 Orders and Judgment complained of...
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