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1936 (5) TMI 17

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..... ppellant. K.N. Tandon for the Respondent. JUDGMENT King, CJ. This is an appeal against the orders of the Honorable Mr. Justice B.N. Srivastava, dated March 12, 1936, and May 11, 1934. The facts which are necessary for the purposes of this appeal, are that the Lucknow Sugar Works Co., Ltd., which is in liquidation, had dealings with the appellant Bank under the heads of (1) Debe .....

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..... ry liquidation. The learned Judge directed the Liquidator to lease out the mills. Most of the money which is now in the hands of the Liquidator is the money realised from the lease of the mills made from year to year. The question to be decided in this appeal is whether the appellants can claim any right to a share in this money and whether the security to which they are entitled can extend to i .....

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..... to the Debenture Account is that the Bank is a secured creditor and, therefore, all the money should be paid to it. The income must form part of the security and that as soon as the order of liquidation was made, the securities were crystalized and it must enure for the benefit of the creditor. The security of the appellants as debenture holder is limited to block and machinery, and whether it i .....

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..... e money realised from the leases. It was next contended by the learned Counsel for the appellants, that the learned Counsel for the Judge should not have given priority and ordered payment in full under section 234(1) ( i ) of the Indian Companies Act to the other creditors whose claim did not fall under section 230 of the Act. It was urged that the intention of this clause could not be to give .....

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..... d to very petty sums. The discretion used by the learned Judge under section 234 of the Act is not capricious or in disregard of any legal principle and this court should be very slow to interfere with the exercise of discretion unless it was satisfied that the discretion was unreasonably exercised. The decision of the learned Judge is correct and there are no grounds for interference and we dis .....

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