The court considered whether the judge had properly left to the jury the issue of whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover an advertised reward which was to be paid to ‘any person who will give such information as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the thieves’.
Citations:
(1867) LR 2 QB 301
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Churchhouse, Regina (on the Application of) v Inland Revenue Admn 4-Apr-2003
The taxpayer was a revenue informer one whose trade is described by Coke as ‘viperous vermin [who] under the reverend mantle of law and justice instituted for protection of the innocent, and the good of the Commonwealth, did vexe and depauperize the . .
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Contract
Updated: 24 November 2022; Ref: scu.194955