The Archive · 1887

In the High Court of Justice

THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1883

No, 582 of 1886, Re EZRA EDMUND HARRIS reside at No. 5 Marden Road Blackheath County of Kent and FELIX GOODWIN fiding at Herman Hill Wanstead in the County of Essex carrying on business in copartucrsbip as General Merchants under the SHANGHAI, WEDNES)/AY, FEB. 2, 1887, Tas two judgments which were delivered by Sir Richard Renie on Saturday last are both of considerable terest, the one in the appeal from Tientsin bein, of more general concern, and the one in favour of Mr. Benjamin more personal, It is an understood thing that liquidators have no bowels and it is the feeling that the recent case against Mr. Benjamin wae a pieos of persecution (lat. has made the decision of the Chief Justice so. poplar. Mr, Benjamin was a shareholder in. the London, Burubay and Mediterranean Bank, Limited, one of the numerous rockets that ros the Bombay Back Bay excitement twenty-three yer and came down like the stick, br destruction on the heads of ita share~ holders, two yeara afterward. By a Balance Order, oe a called. of tie Court of Chancery, Mr. Benjamin, one of many victims, was ordered in 1871 to contribute £1,600 to the. official liquidators of the company.: Iu 1880 the liquidators got e judgment against Mr,

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