Cases - Tennant Radiant Heat Ltd v Warrington Development Corporation

Record details

Name

Tennant Radiant Heat Ltd v Warrington Development Corporation

Date

[1998]

Citation

1 EGLR 41, CA

Keywords

Landlord and tenant – tenant repairing covenant – causation – concurrent cause – reduction of damages

Summary

In this case, a landlord's damages against his lessees for breach of a repairing covenant (a strict obligation) were reduced by 90% because he as landlord had negligently failed to keep clear the drainage outlets of the roof. The landlord's failure was held to be a concurrent cause of the collapse of the roof, to which 90% of the total causation was assigned.