RIGHTS OF TENANTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 22 June 1923, Page 5

RIGHTS OF TENANTS.

, 4 JUSTIFIED IN LEAVING HOUSE. ! 1 BY CABLE— PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPt&IGHT [ LONDON, June 20, j Mr. Justice McCardie delivered an J important judgment in the King's ' ; Bench Division, declaring a tenant was ' justified in leaving a furnished house immediately he learned that there had been a consumptive patient there in ' j the previous month. The judgment' is the outcome of a claim hjr a tenant for the return of the advanoe instal- ! ment of rent. : I Mr. Justice McOardie said he doubted whether the terrible prevalence of consumption in England was fully realised. One person in seven died from ( this disease, and it was the largest j single cause of death between<• the ages j of thirty-five and forty-five. He was I convinced the tenant acted wisely in ! vacating the house, which, it was more ; than likely, was infected with consumptive eerms. i