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Citation pending | 1946-03-26
Held – (i) since W had begun to use the omnibus for the purpose of transport by virtue of his pass, which he had a ccepted of his own free will, he was bound by the conditions on the pass. The fact that W was not fully...
Citation pending | 1946-03-07
The Court of Appeal reverse the decision of the court below, holding that the method of calculation a dopted by the Commissioners in regard to the profits of non-resident insurance companies is not justified. The...
Citation pending | 1946-01-30
An appeal by the petitioner from the decision of Barnard J, dated 16 January 1945, and reported in [1945] 1 AllER 265, was a llowed, the court holding that the case was covered by the decision in Beard v Beard, [1945]...
Citation pending | 1946-01-30
The respondent, an Englishwoman, went through a ceremony of marriage with the a ppellant on 5 May 1939, at a London register office, the a ppellant being described in the marriage certificate as a bachelor. On 1 May...
Citation pending | 1945-12-20
It is held in this case that a former employee is liable to contribute towards a lump sum payment made by a later employer, in lieu of weekly compensation, to a workman suffering from an industrial disease. Such a lump...
Citation pending | 1945-11-26
(1) Case Stated under the Finance Act, 1920, s 27, and the Income Tax Act, 1918, s 149, by the Commissioners for the Special Purposes of the Income Tax Acts for the opinion of the King ’ s Bench Division of the High...
Citation pending | 1945-11-26
S and C, directors of the a ppellant company, retired from office in 1939. By two similar a greements, dated 3 July and 26 July 1939, respectively, the two retiring directors covenanted with the a ppellant company that...
Citation pending | 1945-11-13
Action for damages for negligence. The action was brought by a workman against his employers, sub-contractors for repairs to a ship, for breach of the common law duty owed by a master to his servant, and against the...
Citation pending | 1945-11-12
Whether I construe the language literally, or whether I appeal to authority, I am led to the same conclusion, namely, that cl 6 says what it means, and that notwithstanding the habendum, no notice can be given to...
Citation pending | 1945-11-09
The main point of interest in this appeal is the a rgument raised that a vessel is not on a warlike operation if at the moment when injury is caused she is at a nchor, and therefore not “proceeding through the water.”...
Citation pending | 1945-10-24
The respondent was the wife of a tenant living in one of a block of flats owned by the a ppellant company. A baggage room was provided for the use of tenants living in the flats. In 1942 the respondent ’ s cabin trunk...
Citation pending | 1945-10-23
Husband and Wife – Summary jurisdiction – Maintenance order – Application to discharge – Summons charging a dultery limited to particular incident – Evidence of a dulterous a ssociation for a period of two years –...
Citation pending | 1945-10-19
In 1919 the respondent purchased certain freehold farm property which he mortgaged on the same day to one Reece. The a ppellant, a solicitor, a cted in the transaction for both the respondent and the mortgagee. In Feb...
Citation pending | 1945-07-27
S and C, directors of the a ppellant company, retired from office in 1939. By two similar a greements, dated 3 July and 26 July 1939, respectively, the two retiring directors covenanted with the a ppellant company that...
Citation pending | 1945-07-24
The parties were married in 1929. In 1940 the petitioner husband, while serving a broad as a soldier, was taken prisoner. In 1943 the petitioner was repatriated and lived with his wife until Apr 1944, so far as his a...
Citation pending | 1945-07-10
On 11 December 1919, the plaintiff purchased certain freehold farm property situated at Oswestry in Shropshire. By a deed, dated the same day, he mortgaged the property to one Reece to secure the repayment with...
Citation pending | 1945-07-05
The petitioner, an Englishwoman, went through a ceremony of marriage with the respondent on 5 May 1939, at a London register office, the respondent being described in the marriage certificate as a bachelor. On 1 May...
Citation pending | 1945-07-03
The a ppellant had been engaged by the respondents as an engineer in their factory and, in consequence of his employment, he went, in November 1941, into occupation of a house, belonging to the respondents, at a rent...
Citation pending | 1945-06-24
The first question here decided, a ffirming the Court of Appeal, is whether the haulage by a nimal power of a broken tram up the main haulage road of a mine was a breach of the Coal Mines Act 1911, s 47, which requires...
Citation pending | 1945-06-12
Public Health – Housing – Insanitary house – House let as two separate tenements – Two parts of house rated by local authority as separate dwellings – Statutory notice to carry out repairs – Failure to comply with...
Citation pending | 1945-06-12
It is not disputed that, if that condition a pplied, apart from the point taken about statutory duty the plaintiff would be out of court. I do not think there can be any possible doubt that that condition does apply. I...
C 7169 in respect of the royalty for this period | 1945-06-07
Action by the licensors claiming (i) a declaration that they are entitled to see certain books and other documents of the licensees, (ii) an order for inspection and (iii) an account of all sums due to them by the...
Citation pending | 1945-05-17
Held – (i) the commissioners were entitled to make an a pportionment under the Finance Act, 1939, s 15, against a person of whom it could be predicated at any time in the fiscal year that he was “a ble to secure that...
Citation pending | 1945-05-17
Petition by the husband for divorce on the ground of desertion, the wife respondent in her a mended answer denying desertion and pleading desertion on the part of the petitioner and in the cross-prayer a sking for a...
Citation pending | 1945-05-17
A ship requisitioned by the Government under the conditions of the charterparty T99A was insured by the respondents against the consequences of hostilities by or against the King ’ s enemies. On 19 October 1940, she...
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Each of the seven brewery companies were the owners of a number of on-licensed houses in the Merseyside are a. In many of these houses the licence was held by a manager who was employed by the brewery company in...
Citation pending | 1945-05-16
The plaintiffs claimed an injunction and other relief for a lleged infringement by the defendants of the plaintiffs ’ registered trade mark, consisting of the word “Bentley.” In their defence the defendants, in a...
Citation pending | 1945-04-19
Estate and other Death Duties – Cesser of a nnuity – Annuity bequeathed by will – Substitution of smaller a nnuity secured by deed of compromise – Whether “granted for full consideration in money ’ s worth” – Finance...
Citation pending | 1945-04-17
The parties were married in 1929. In 1940 the petitioner husband, while serving a broad as a soldier, was taken prisoner. In 1943 the petitioner was repatriated and lived with his wife until April 1944, so far as his a...
Citation pending | 1945-03-12
Practice – Judgments and orders – Form of judgment – Defendants joined on different causes of action in respect of some subject matter – Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 (c 49), s 41 – Rules of the...
Citation pending | 1945-03-05
The a ppellant company sought the confirmation of the court to an a lteration of the company ’ s memorandum of a ssociation with respect to its objects. The company which was limited by shares and had been incorporated...
Citation pending | 1945-01-29
Appeal by the Crown from a decision of the Commissioners for the General Purposes of Income Tax for the division of Nottingham, a llowing an appeal of the company against a ssessments made on them under the Income Tax...
Citation pending | 1945-01-24
The a ppellant laundry company lost certain a rticles received by it from the respondent for laundering. The terms upon which the company a ccepted its customer ’ s goods included a clause in the following terms: “The...
Citation pending | 1945-01-16
Reluctantly I find myself unable to agree with the decision of Pilcher J It seems to me that it would of necessity follow from this decision that a husband who committed a dultery, was forgiven by his wife, and then...
[1966] GLR 299 | 1944-12-31
This is an appeal from the judgment of Akainyah J. (as he then was) delivered on 10 December 1962, in favour of the plaintiff -respondent (hereinafter referred to as plaintiff). The plaintiff’s claim against the...
Citation pending | 1944-12-08
The respondents who had carried on business since 1929, were the owners of an undisclosed process for effecting invisible repairs to ladies ’ stockings, and this process they had called the “Rysta” process On 10...
It was not the entry of people into the shelter and the way they got in that prompted me to suggest that we should have police a ssistance. | 1944-12-08
The Court of Appeal here uphold the court below on all points on which the appeal is based. Two matters call for reference in this note. It is held that the local authority failed in their duty to the respondent and...
Citation pending | 1944-10-25
Held – the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1879, s 44, was confined to cases where property was taken from a person who was at the time charged with some offence or other before a court of summary jurisdiction. Therefore, the...
Citation pending | 1944-10-13
Practice – Writ – Extension of time for service – Action under Fatal Accidents Act 1846 – Writ issued within the 12 months limited by the Act – Not served within 12 months of date of issue – Discretion of court to...
Citation pending | 1944-07-27
A settlor transferred to trustees two a ssurance policies on his own life and certain shares. The trustees were to use the income of the shares and any a ccumulation thereof to pay the premiums on the policies and to...
Citation pending | 1944-07-24
The fact that interest is payable upon the sum secured by the dividend note tends to give the sum payable under the note a capital flavour, but this question has to be decided on all the facts. Taking all the facts...
Citation pending | 1944-07-18
It is part of the duty of public authorities to deal from time to time with crowds and this at a time when it can quite reasonably be expected that such crowds will be desirous of proceeding to some particular place...
Citation pending | 1944-07-18
County Courts – Jurisdiction – Cause of action a rising wholly or in part in the district – Parcel posted in London – Not registered – Parcel lost – Jurisdiction of court at Bakewell – County Court Rules 1936, Ord 2, r...
61 of the House | 1944-07-13
The a ppellant was a judgment debtor to the Crown in respect of a rrears of purchase tax, and was a rrested under a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum. The question for the determination of the court was whether the...
Citation pending | 1944-07-05
An infant employee in a factory was injured while operating a horizontal milling machine. An a greement under the Workmen ’ s Compensation Acts 1925 – 1934, was entered into by the employers and the infant employee...
Citation pending | 1944-05-26
The plaintiff was driving for pleasure purposes a car in which A and N were passengers when the car was involved in an a ccident, as a result of which N was injured and A died. The car belonged to A, and the plaintiff...
Citation pending | 1944-05-22
The House has here made a distinction between the case where ordinary commercial credit is given and that where a debt is a llowed to be paid by instalments extending over a number of years the debt, as far as it is...
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Privy Council – Palestine – Criminal law – Discretion of prosecuting counsel to call witnesses named on indictment or information – Constitution of Court of Criminal Assize – Order made by the High Commissioner – Ultra...
Citation pending | 1944-05-18
The “marking” of cheques is not often resorted to in countries governed by English law, and its consideration by the court seems to have been limited by the consideration of marking in connection with clearances. The...
Citation pending | 1944-05-17
The respondent company was incorporated on 25 February 1937, as a limited company under the name of Stockwell Brewery Ltd. On the same day the respondent company entered into an a greement with H company, which was...