JC Williamson Ltd v Durno Ltd [1915] NSWStRp 55; (1915) 15 SR (NSW) 442

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Title JC Williamson Ltd v Durno Ltd [1915] NSWStRp 55; (1915) 15 SR (NSW) 442
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Abstract/Description The plaintiff was the sub-lessee from D. of certain business premises excepting thereout the ground floor of the shop premises and a room at the rear of the shop. The sub-lease provided that during the term D. might reconstruct or rebuild the whole of the premises, and that thereupon the plaintiff should be entitled as tenant to so much and such part of the reconstructed or rebuilt premises as should represent in quantity, accommodation and situation the premises then in occupation of the plaintiff, or as near thereto as the altered design of the building would permit. Under this provision the whole of the premises were demolished, and a hall suitable only for a picture show, or place of entertainment was erected, covering the whole of the ground occupied by the former premises. Held, that the premises as rebuilt were not capable of division, and could only be occupied as one parcel, and that the plaintiff was entitled to a lease of the whole area.
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Date Issued 13 October 1915
Holding Institution Australasian Legal Information Institute
Language English
Citation Supreme Court of New South Wales, JC Williamson Ltd v Durno Ltd [1915] NSWStRp 55; (1915) 15 SR (NSW) 442, Australasian Legal Information Institute, 13 October 1915
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Resource Identifier 51979