Cases - Drury v Army and Navy Auxiliary Co-Operative Supply Ltd

Record details

Name

Drury v Army and Navy Auxiliary Co-Operative Supply Ltd

Date

(1896)

Citation

2 QB 271

Legislation

London Building Act 1894

Keywords

Party walls - London Building Act 1894

Summary

A provision of the London Building Act 1894 required warehouses, above a certain size, to be divided by party walls. Parts of the building were to be 5 storeys high, while others were to be only 1 storey in height. It was held that a wall that was a party wall because it divided adjoining buildings or, as here, divided portions of a warehouse, was not a party wall at a height above which it stopped fulfilling that function.