Byers v Byers

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Court: Supreme Court (Irish Free State)
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1927
• Date: 01 January 1927
• Docket Number: (1926. No. 8675.)

S.C.,

Byers

and

Byers

Transfer without application by parties - Trial Judge transferring action of his own motion - No application for transfer made by either party -Validity of Judge's order - No evidence for determining whether order for transfer ought to be made - Appeal - Adjournment of trial following amendment of pleadings - Costs - Rules of the Supreme Court, 1905, Or. LVIII., r. 4 - Courts of Justice Act, 1924 (No. 10 of 1924), s. 25.

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