Getty v Antrim County Council
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1950 |
| Date | 01 January 1950 |
| Court | Assizes (Northern Ireland) |
Whether dismantling machine is "damage" - Parts of machine removed -Measure of compensation - Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1836 (6 7 Wm. 4, c. 116), s.135 - Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 25 Vict., c. 97), s. 15 - Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 (61 62 Vict., c. 37), s. 5 (1).
The applicant claimed compensation for damage to two tractor ploughs. The ploughs bad been left in a field by the applicant's son, and on his return he found that they had been dismantled. Some parts had been removed, but the remaining parts were undamaged. There was no evidence as to what had become of the missing parts. Held:—(1) that the dismantling of the ploughs constituted damage to them within the meaning of the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, and that the applicant was therefore entitled to recover compensation; (2) that compensation was limited to the cost of reassembling the ploughs, there being no evidence that the missing parts had been damaged or...
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