Companies - litigation

Young & others v. Fernie & others

Selected extracts relating to oil operations in Dorset.

Young v. Fernie was the last, the longest, and the most renowned of a series of court actions pursued b…

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT (Before Vice-Chancellor STUART.)

Selected extracts including statements for the defence.

Friday 22nd April 1864

Mr. Ebenezer Waugh Fernie, examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

I…

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT (Before Vice-Chancellor STUART.)

Selected extracts from the famous court case that provide descriptions of oil production from adapted coke ovens at various sites in South…

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT (Before Vice-Chancellor STUART.)

Selected extracts including the opening summary of charges.

Monday 29th February 1864

Mr Grove (for Young, the plainiff)

In 1861 it was found…

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT (Before Vice-Chancellor STUART.)

Selected extracts from the famous court case that provide descriptions of oil production from adapted coke ovens at various sites in South…

Action against the North British Oil & Candle Co.

At the Northumberland Assizes, the Court was occupied the greater part of the last two days in trying the case of Murray and Another v The North B…

North Staffordshire Railway v. Ward

ln this cause Mr. E. Tennant appeared tor the North Staffordshire Railway Company, who were the plaintiffs, and Mr. Sutton appeared for the defendant, Mr. Henry War…

Cowie's Trustee's v. The Airdrie Mineral Oil Co. Ltd.

JURY TRIALS – FIRST DIVISION (Before the Lord President)

This case was commence yesterday.

George Cowie, coalmaster, Airdrie, deceased, wa…

West Calder Oil Co. v. Fell

conjoined with Fell v. West Calder Oil Company

In the first of these conjoined actions, which is at the instance of the West Calder Oil Company, and Mr. Lewis Thorpe Merrow …

GLASGOW SHERIFF COURT.

Baird v. Glasgow & South Western Railway

Important Decision to Carriers.

This was an action for the recovery of £38, being the value of 2000 gallons of oil belonging to the pu…