Re, Whiterock Quarries, Ltd,

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 15 May 1933
• Docket Number: (1932. No. 123 P.)
• Date: 15 May 1933
• Court: High Court (Irish Free State)

In re Whiterock Quarries

Limited

Execution creditors -Sheriff's seizure before presentation of winding-up petition - No sale prior to presentation of petition - Petitioner's and liquidator's costs -Priority of execution creditors - Irish Bankruptcy and Insolvent Act, 1857 (20 21 Vict. c.60), s. 329 - Bankruptcy (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1872 (35 36 Vict. c. 58), s. 54 - Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908 (8 Ed. 7, c.69), s. 207.

In the winding-up of a company judgment creditors of the company, in respect of whose debts a seizure of the assets of the company has been made prior to the presentation of the petition for winding-up, are entitled to be paid their claims in priority to the petitioner's and liquidator's costs and the liquidator's remuneration, notwithstanding that no sale...