McDaid v Milford Rural District Council

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1919
• Date: 01 January 1919
• Court: Court of Appeal (Ireland)

K. B. D., App.,

M'Daid

and

Milford Rural District Council

Temporary letting of plot to a person not an agricultural labourer -Breach of statutory duty - Preferential right -Labourer's right of action - Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1886, s. 15 - Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906, s. 29.

A rural district council made an improvement scheme under the Labourers Acts based upon a representation signed by, or on behalf of, agricultural labourers, amongst whom was the plaintiff, whose representation was in respect of a cottage and about an acre of land. Regulations in pursuance of s. 29 of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906, were framed...