Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000229/1979 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 October 1979.
1. This is an interpleader summons in which the Commissioner of Inland Revenue (Plaintiff) and the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (Defendant) are the claimants of a sum of $1,574,613.21 in Fyrnetics Asia Limited's ("the Company") time deposit account No. AEFL 2298 with American Express Finance Limited (the Stakeholder) and it falls upon me to determine which of the two claimants is entitled to the sum of money with interests accruing.