Taff Vale Railway Company v Jenkins
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 23 October 1912 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1912] UKHL J1023-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 23 October 1912 |
[1912] UKHL J1023-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel for the Appellants this day upon the Petition and Appeal of the Taff Vale Railway Company, of the City of Cardiff, 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 28th of March 1912, 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 Petitioners 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 Edward Jenkins, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and Counsel appearing for the Respondent, but not being called on; and due consideration being had of what was offered for the said Appellants:
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 28th day of March 1912, 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, dismissed this House: And it is further Ordered, That the Appellants do pay, or cause to be paid, to the said Respondent the Costs...
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