IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.
TENANTS’ LEGAL RIQHT. TERMINAION OF A LEASE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, June 20. Mr Justice MeCardie gave an important judgment in the King's Bench Division, declaring that a tenant was justified in leaving a furnished house immediately he learned that there had been a consumptive patient there in the previous month. This judgment was the outcome of a claim by a tenant for the return of an advance instalment of rent. Mr Justice MeCardie said he doubted whether the terrible prevalence of consumption in England was fully realised. One person in every seven died from that disease. It was the largest single cause of death between the ages of 35 and 45. He was convinced that the tenant acted wisely in vacating the house, which it was more tnan likely was infected with consumption germs.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15271, 22 June 1923, Page 5
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139IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15271, 22 June 1923, Page 5
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