Minchin and Another v Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1947
• Date: 01 January 1947
• Court: District Court (Ireland)

(Dist. Ct.),

Annie H. Minchin and A. J. Reddy, Appellants, and the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Dublin

Respondents

Fire precautions notice - Notice requiring proprietor of building to refrain absolutely from using building - Appeal to District Court - Wood carver carrying on his trade in basement, upper portion of house inhabited by several families - Whether building so occupied constitutes a "potentially dangerous building" - Practice - Fire Brigades Act, 1940 (No. 7 of 1940), ss. 1, 7.

In a four storied tenement house at No. 56...