"The rule is this: that wherever there is a decision of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction, the other Courts will adopt that as the basis of their decision, provided it can be appealed from. If it cannot be appealed from, then they will exercise their own judgment."
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Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, C.B., Leech v. North Staffordshire Railway Co. (1860), 29 L. J. M. C. 155.
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