Dowty Boulton Paul Ltd v Wolverhampton Corporation (No 2): 1976

The right to take-off and land airplanes on an airfield enabled the dominant owners to step in and mow the field sufficient to create and maintain runways when the servient owners discontinued its use as an airfield. This was held not to amount to an ouster.
[1976] 1 Ch 13
England and Wales
Citing:
See AlsoDowty Boulton Paul Ltd v Wolverhampton Corporation 1971
An order was sought to require the defendant tenants to keep an airfield open as a going concern.
Held: The order was refused. Pennycuick V-C said: ‘It is very well established that the court will not order specific performance of an . .

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Updated: 10 October 2021; Ref: scu.648250