MACKENZIE BROTHERS AND OTHERS v. THE ADMIRALTY.

(1925) 22 Ll L Rep 65

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Before the Lord Chancellor (Viscount Cave), Viscount Haldane, Lord Dunedin, Lord Sumner and Lord Buckmaster.

Compensation-Interference with ousiness- Emergency legislation-Distillery taker, possession of by Admiralty for war purposes-Assessment of loss of profits- Whether to be based on profits which could have been earned owing to abnormal prices obtainable during period premises taken by Admiralty or on pre-requisition profits-Indemnity Act, 1920, Sect. 2 (2) (iii) (b) and Schedule, Part II.