Prendergast v New Ireland Assurance Company

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1940
• Date: 01 January 1940
• Court: Circuit Court

(Cir. Ct.),

Prendergast

and

New Ireland Assurance Company

Practice - Summary manner - Motion - Satisfactory evidence of cause of death and of duration of illness - Sufficiency of evidence by affidavit in dispute before the Circuit Court under s. 72 of the Insurance Act, 1936.

1. Sect. 72 (1) of the Insurance Act, 1936, provides: —"Whenever any dispute arises between an industrial assurance company and any of the following persons (in this section referred to as the applicant), that is to say —(a)...