Wheeler v Mercer

Case [1956] UKHL 5


    Die Mercurii, 31° Octobris 1956

    Parliamentary Archives,
    HL/PO/JU/4/3/1040

    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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