Minto v Cahill

JurisdictionIreland
Judgment Date17 April 1940
Date17 April 1940
CourtSupreme Court
(Rec. Ct., N.I.),
Blair
and
General Steam Navigation Company

-Seaman - Injury and death caused by war injury - Whether Workmen's Compensation Acts apply - Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1939 (English Statutes) (2 3 Geo. VI, c. 82), s. 3 (1) (a) -Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act, 1939 (2 3 Geo. VI, c. 83), s. 3 (1) (a) - Naval (War Pensions) Order.

The applicants were sisters of a deceased ordinary seaman, who had been employed on board the S.S. "Abukir" and who had been drowned when that vessel was sunk by enemy action. Held, that the provisions of the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1939, a statute applying to Northern Ireland, excluded claims for compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Acts in such a case.

(S.C.),
Minto
and
Cahill

Rent paid in excess of the amount permitted by the Acts - Whether recoverable from the landlord by the personal representative of the tenant - Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1923 (No. 19 of 1923), s. 1 (g) and (h); s. 15, sub-s. 1.

Rent paid in excess of the amount permitted by the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1923, is not recoverable by the personal representative of the deceased tenant from the landlord. So held by the Supreme Court, approving Twomeyv. CroninIRDLTR [1937] I.R. 324; 71 ILTR. 183

(S.C.),
Minto
and
Cahill

Rent paid in excess of the amount permitted by the Acts - Whether recoverable from the landlord by the personal representative of the tenant - Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1923 (No. 19 of 1923), s. 1 (g) and (h); s. 15, sub-s. 1.

Rent paid in excess of the amount permitted by the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1923, is not recoverable by the personal representative of the deceased tenant from the landlord. So held by the Supreme Court...

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