Holohan v Friends Provident and Century Life Office

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 15 December 1966
• Date: 15 December 1966
• Docket Number: (1963. No. 506 P.)
• Court: Supreme Court

(S.C.)

Holohan

and

Friends Provident and Century Life Office

Duty of mortgagee in exercising power - Price - Parties - Mortgagor's action to restrain completion of sale - Whether purchaser a necessary party - Conveyancing Act, 1881, s. 21 (2) - Conveyancing Act, 1911, s. 5 (1).

A life insurance company in the exercise of its powers of sale as legal mortgagee entered into a contract for the sale of certain property of which the plaintiff was mortgagor. In negotiating the sale and the purchase price to...