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The Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908 (8 Edw. VII, cap. 8), section 223, enacts—“(1) Where a company has been dissolved, the Court may at any time within two years of the date of the dissolution, on an application being made for the purpose by the liquidator of the company or by any other person who appears to the Court to be interested, make an order, upon such terms as the Court thinks fit, declaring the dissolution to have been void, and thereupon such proceedings may be taken as might have been taken if the company had not been dissolved.”
Findley Caldwell Ker, liquidator of M'Call & Stephen, Limited, John Stewart Roberton, as trustee of the late Hugh Wilson, engraver and lithographer, Glasgow, and the Clydesdale Bank, Limited, having their registered office at 30 Saint Vincent Place, Glasgow, petitioners , presented a petition for an order declaring the dissolution of the company to have been void.
Argued for the petitioners—The Court had express authority under section 223 of the Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908 (8 Edw. VII, cap. 69)— Collins Brothers & Company, Limited , 1916 S.C. 620 , 43 S.L.R. 454 . No remit to a man of business was necessary, and the additional expense of such remit should if possible be avoided.
Counsel for the Petitioners— D. A. Guild . Agents— Ronald & Ritchie , W.S.
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