Fessenden appeared on behalf of Hoong On Steam Navigation Ca, Bir. Wright said that the object of the petition was to complete th: title of the Robert Dollar Ca. eertein property at Wah which covered by two title deeds registered fir the Tiritish Consulate there.
These deeds at present are in the name of the Hoong On Stea Navigation Ca., Lal., which previows'y was a Dritish company incorporatwt under the Hongkong Ordinances. Tt went into liquidation in 1919 and transferred its assets to a company of the same name registered under Chinese law. Mr, Seth and Mr.
Mancell were the liquidators, but, through sorite inadvertence, they di i net take any steps to transfer the} title deeds and when the company was dissolved there was no one in a position, or who had any right, to transfer the two lots to the Robert Dollar Ca, who had purchased them from the old combat 'This position could be rectified by' an application under the Trus'ec' Act of 1925 for an order vesting the property in the Robert Dollar Ca. The 1cason the Crown Advorate had been served was that the property:
in a state in which apparently: it belonged to nobody and therefore could be i was' one of the directors of the old company, had filed an affidavit. it support of the application, Bir, Fessenden said that the Tong On Steam Navigation Ca. consente! ito the order asked for in the petition, Mr, Lipson Ward said that, on behalf of the Crown, he was instructed not to offer any opposi-ion. It had been agreed that the Grown Advocate's costs should be eid by the petitioners.
'The Judge made an order vesting' the land in the Robert Dollar Ca, with costs as agreed.
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