Thomas Wilson, Sons & Company, v Owners of the Cargo Per Late Steamship "Xantho."

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtHouse of Lords
Judgment Date14 July 1887
Judgment citation (vLex)[1887] UKHL J0714-3
Date14 July 1887

[1887] UKHL J0714-3

House of Lords

Thomas Wilson, Sons & Co.,
and
Owners of the Cargo Per Late Steamship "Xantho."
1

After hearing Counsel on Thursday, the 17th day of March last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Thomas Wilson, Sons, and Company, of Kingston-upon-Hull, the Owners of the late Steamship or Vessel "Xantho," praying that the matter of the Order and Order or Decree set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal of the 7th and 8th of June, 1886, and also an Order or Decree of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice of the 25th of February 1886, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen, in Her Court of...

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