Webster v Bush

• Jurisdiction: Jamaica
• Judge: (Scholes, Ag. C.J., Lumb and Vickers, JJ.)
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1952
• Court: Supreme Court (Jamaica)
• Date: 01 January 1952

Supreme Court of Jamaica

(Scholes, Ag. C.J., Lumb and Vickers, JJ.)

WEBSTER

and

BUSH

Courts-Grand Court-appeal from Petty Court

The Law for Regulating the Courts of Justice in the Cayman Islands, 1889, s.15 makes express provision for any person dissatisfied with a judgment of the Petty Court to appeal to the Grand Court; accordingly, it follows that the Grand Court must have jurisdiction to hear and decide appeals properly so brought, since any other conclusions would be absurd (R. v. Rector, &c. of St. James, Westminster (1834), 2 Ad. & El. 241; 111 E.R. 93, applied; Cullen v. Trimble (1872), L.R. 7 Q.B. 416, applied).