Die Mercurii, 31° Octobris 1956
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Die Mercurii, 31° Octobris 1956
Upon
Report from the Appellate Committee, to whom
was referred the
Cause Wheeler against Mercer, that
the Committee had heard
Counsel, as well on Tuesday
the 17th, as on Wednesday the 18th,
days of July last,
upon the Petition and Appeal of Alfred Morris
Wheeler,
of "Franks", Horton Kirby, in the County of
Kent,
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 24th of October 1955, 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
Petitioner 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 Helen Molly Mercer,
lodged
in answer to the said Appeal; and due con-
sideration 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 24th day of
October 1955, complained of in the said
Appeal, be, and
the same is hereby, Reversed except as to
Costs and that
the Order of His Honour Judge Glazebrook of
the
28th day of July 1955, be, and the same is hereby,
Discharged
except as to Costs: And it is hereby Declared,
That the
Plaintiff is entitled to recover possession of
the lock-up shop
at the ground floor of 59 Grosvenor
Road, Tunbridge Wells, in the
County of Kent, and
that the Plaintiff is also entitled to
recover mesne profits
in respect of the said premises, the amount
of such
mesne profits 'to be determined by the County
Court
Judge: And it is further Ordered, That the Cause
be,
and the same is hereby, remitted back to the Tunbridge
Wells
County Court to do therein as shall be just and
consistent with
this Judgment: And it is also further
Ordered, That there
be no Costs of the Appeal to this
House.
Wheeler v.
Mercer.
Viscount
Simonds
Lord
Morton
of
Henryton
Lord
Cohen
Lord
Keith
of
Avonholm
Lord
Somervell
of
Harrow
HOUSE OF LORDS
WHEELER
v.
MERCER
31st October, 1956.
Viscount Simonds
MY LORDS,
The
Appellant is the owner in fee simple of premises at 59,
Grosvenor
Road, Tunbridge Wells, in the County of Kent, of the
ground floor of which
the Respondent has been in occupation since
1936, there carrying on the
business of a tobacconist. On the 13th
April, 1955, the Appellant issued
a summons in the Tunbridge Wells
County Court against the Respondent
claiming possession of the
premises and mesne profits from 29th September,
1953, to 12th May,
1955. On 28th July, 1955, the learned County Court
Judge dismissed
his claim for…
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