Cases - Jones v Herxheimer

Record details

Name

Jones v Herxheimer

Date

[1950]

Citation

2 KB 106

Legislation

Landlord and Tenant Act 1927

Keywords

Commercial property - property management - dilapidations

Summary

This case gives authority for the proposition that where the landlord has done or intends to do work within the covenant and which was no more than reasonably necessary, the cost of those works will, on the face of it, represent the diminution in value to the reversion due to the tenant’s breach of covenant, being money which the landlord, acting as a prudent owner, had to spend on the property as a result of the breach and would not have had to spend but for the breach.