Re Irish Employers Mutual Insurance Association Ltd
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1955 |
| Date | 01 January 1955 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
Priority of payments -Right of Commissioners of Public Works -Mutual insurance association in liquidation -Claim by Commissioners of Public Works to payment in priority to other creditors - Preferential payments - Whether common law prerogative right of Crown to priority of payment applicable to sums payable for benefit of Central Fund -Rights of members of mutual association to priority inter se - Principles for ascertaining whether the Commissioners acting as agents of the State or as public servants - Finance Act, 1924 (No. 27 of 1924) s. 38 - Preferential Payments in Bankruptcy (Ir.) Act, 1889 (52 and 53 Vict., c. 60), s. 4 - Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstat Eireann) Act, 1922 (No. 1 of 1922) -Constitution of Ireland.
By order of the High Court, dated the 4th July, 1948, it was ordered that the Irish Employers Mutual Insurance Association Limited, a company limited by guarantee, and having no share capital, should be wound up compulsorily. The total claims of...
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