Trego and Another v Hunt
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 05 December 1895 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1895] UKHL J1205-2 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 05 December 1895 |
[1895] UKHL J1205-2
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel as well on Tuesday the 25th, as Thursday the 27th, and Friday the 28th days of June last, upon the Petition and Appeal of Anna Trego, Widow, and William Wilson Smith, 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 20th of February 1895, 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 Petitioners 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 George Stratford Hunt, lodged in answer to the said Appeal; and due consideration had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:
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 Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 20th of February 1895, be, and the same is hereby Reversed; and it is declared that the Appellants are entitled to an Injunction, restraining the Respondent, his partners, servants, or agents, from applying privately, by letter, personally, or by a traveller, to any person who was, prior to the dissolution of the partnership, a customer of the firm of Tabor Trego and Co., asking such customer to continue after the dissolution to deal with him, the Respondent, or not to deal with the Appellants: And it is further Ordered...
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