Sharp v Wakefield and Others
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 20 March 1891 |
Judgment citation (vLex) | [1891] UKHL J0320-2 |
Court | House of Lords |
[1891] UKHL J0320-2
House of Lords
Sharp
and
Wakefield and Others.
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After hearing Counsel as well on Friday the 30th day of January last, as Monday the 2nd, and Tuesday the 3rd days of February last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Susannah Sharp, of Staveley, in the County of Westmoreland, 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 15th of December 1888, 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...
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