Rooney v Department of Agriculture for Ireland

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1924
• Date: 01 January 1924
• Docket Number: (1918. No. 300.)
• Court: Court of Appeal (Irish Free State)

App.,

Rooney

and

The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland

Entry on land for purpose of - Lands sublet - Unreasonable with-holding - Jurisdiction - Compensation to owner -Defence of the Realm Acts - Regulation 2 L.

Lands were compulsorily acquired by the defendants for the maintenance of food supply under Regulation 2 L of the Defence of the Realm Act, which lands were at the time sublet in conacre. In an action by the owner of the lands against the defendants for damages and an injunction:—Held, by the Court of Appeal (affirming the decision of the Master of the Rolls), that the question whether the use of the lands had been unreasonably with-held was one solely for the opinion of the Department of Agriculture, whose conclusion thereon was not open to review in an action: —Held also, that the omission from the Regulation, as applied to...