Walridge against Kennison Et Alt

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1793
Date01 January 1793
CourtHigh Court

English Reports Citation: 170 E.R. 306

IN THE COURTS OF KING'S BENCH AND COMMON PLEAS.

Walridge against Kennison Et Alt

Monday, June 9th waldridge agmnsi kennison et alt. (An admission of a hand-writing made by the defendant, pending a treaty for compromising the suit, is evidence against him.) Case on a bill of exchange against the defendants as joint acceptors. Plea of the general issue. The hand-writing of one of the defendants was regularly proved The proof as to Kenmson, the other defendant, was thus, that the cause having been entered, and standing for trial...

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11 cases
  • Ofulue and Another v Bossert
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 11 March 2009
    ... ... the protection that the rule gives in without prejudice negotiations to an admission against interest extends to an acknowledgment of what at the time it was made was an agreed fact ... After referring to Waldridge v Kennison (1794) 1 Esp 142 with some lack of enthusiasm Lord Griffiths then said that "If ... ...
  • Rush & Tompkins Ltd v Greater London Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 3 November 1988
    ... ... in order to resolve the deadlock Rush and Tompkins commenced proceedings in August 1979 against the G.L.C. as first defendant and Careys as second defendant in which they claimed an inquiry into ... Kennison (1794) 1 Esp. 142 ... I regard this as an exceptional case and it should not be allowed to whittle ... ...
  • AAG Investments Ltd v BAA Airports Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 9 November 2010
    ...“ admission” is given a substantially wider meaning than it usually has in the law of evidence. (I disregard the old case of Waldridge v. Kennison (1794) 1 Esp. 143, which Lord Griffiths in the Rush & Tompkins case [1989] A.C. 1280, 1300, regarded as exceptional.) Conversely, however, I......
  • Christopher James Briggs and Others v Alexander Clay
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 25 February 2019
    ...for a settlement. Thus an admission that a document was in the handwriting of one of the parties was received in evidence in Waldridge v. Kennison (1794) 1 Esp. 142. I regard this as an exceptional case and it should not be allowed to whittle down the protection given to the parties to spea......
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