The tenant of a council house claimed damages for injury caused by fumes from a gas fire. At the date of the letting the property had a living room gas fire which was set into an ordinary fire place venting out through a chimney. However, the chimney had become blocked and the fumes could not escape.

HELD: In the County Court the judge held that

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