Poole Corpn v Blake

Subject Matter

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 — Private Street Works Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 57), ss. 6, 9 (1).