The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division)
[1956] 1 QB 206
[DIVISIONAL COURT]
POOLE CORPORATION
v.
BLAKE.
1955 Oct. 28.
Lord Goddard C.J., Ormerod and Barry JJ.
Highway
— Private Street works
— Improvements by local authority
— Surface water drainage system laid down in private street in 1923
— System vested in local authority
— Proposed enlargement of system
— Apportionment of expense on frontagers
— Local authority satisfied or deemed to be satisfied with existing system
— Whether local authority empowered to require frontagers to contribute to expense
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Private Street Works Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 57), ss. 6, 9 (1).