Frasca-Judd v Golovina
Decision date: 5 February 2016
Neutral citation: Neutral citation not available
Court: Court not available
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This is a landlord-insurer claim (brought by subrogation) against a tenant for flood damage caused by frozen pipes, relying on a tenancy clause requiring precautions against frost and on negligence. The factual dispute was whether the tenant left the heating on when she vacated the cottage on 27 December 2009; the judge found on the balance of probabilities that she did leave the heating on and that a subsequent heating failure could not be excluded. For the reasons given in the judgment the claim was dismissed.
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