McQuick v. L & V Realties Ltd.

Landlord and tenant-Notice to quit-Rent Restriction Act, s. 25-Facts: The appellant tenant of the respondent company was given notice to quit on the ground that the house was for sale. The appeal was based on the ground that notice was not based on any known circumstances under the Rent Restriction Act, s. 25. The trial judge considered it an oversight on the part of the legislature in not making specific statutory provisions to cover a case such as this. The judge reasoned that the state never intended in general to deprive an owner of property from exercising his right of selling the property as one of the incidents of ownership-Held: Appeal allowed. Resident Magistrate had failed to consider the issue before him.