Ashley v Byrne

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1940
• Date: 01 January 1940
• Court: Circuit Court

(Cir. Ct.),

Ashley

and

Byrne

Valuation - Premises occupied consisting of one whole house and portion of adjoining house - Premises occupied not valued as a single entity - No power in Court to add valuation figures.

A tenant occupied from a single landlord and subject to a single contract of tenancy, one whole house and two rooms in an adjoining house, all of which were connected and used together. The tenant's holding in the adjoining house was not valued separately from the remainder of that house, nor had it been valued jointly with the said whole house. Held, on an application by the tenant to fix the standard rent of his entire holding, that the Court had no power to add to the valuation of one valuation unit, a portion of the valuation of another so as to arrive at the rateable value of the entire...