In re West Coast Gold Fields Ltd: 1905

The shareholder was bankrupt, but the company, in which he owned shares on which the capital remined unpaid, was solvent and in voluntary liquidation.
Held: The payment-up of the shares in full was a condition precedent to any participation in the distribution of surplus assets. Buckley J said: ‘The right view is that the person liable as contributory must discharge himself in that character before he can set up that, as a creditor, he is entitled to receive anything, and a fortiori, as it seems to me, before he can set up that, as a contributory, he is entitled to receive anything.’

Judges:

Buckley J

Citations:

[1905] 1 Ch 597

Cited by:

CitedIn re Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander Ltd SC 19-Oct-2011
The bank had been put into administrative receivership, and the court was now asked as to how distributions were to be made, and in particular as to the application of the equitable rule in Cherry v Boultbee in the rule against double proof as it . .
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Insolvency, Company

Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.449850