Watkins, Jameson, Pim and Company Ltd v Coyne

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

(Cir. Ct.),

Watkins, Jameson, Pim and Co. Ltd

and

Coyne

for breach of covenant -Public house - Covenant not to infringe licensing laws - Breach of covenant - Conveyancing and Law of Property Act, 1881, s. 14.

The defendant held licensed premises from the plaintiffs under a lease containing a covenant not to do or permit to be done "any act or thing whereby the said licence may be forfeited or be in danger of being forfeited or whereby the lessee . . . . may incur any fine or penalty by reason of...