Rafter v Dublin Corporation

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1953
• Date: 01 January 1953
• Court: High Court

Rafter

and

Dublin Corporation

Entry into possession - Compensation remaining unpaid - Interest payable - Application of law of vendor and purchaser to compulsory purchase - Unemployment (Relief Works) Act, 1940, (No. 34 of1940), ss. 11, 14, 15.

A local authority which has entered into the possession or receipt of the rents and profits of lands compulsorily acquired under the provisions of the Unemployment (Relief Works) Act, 1940, and which has become liable to pay interest under s. 15 of the said Act is liable for the payment of interest on the unpaid balance of the compensation fixed in respect of such lands in accordance with the ordinary law of vendor and purchaser. So held by Casey J...