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Court of Session Inner House First Division.
The Holland House Electrical Manufacturing Company, Limited, presented a petition to the Court for an order confirming a reduction of its capital resolved on by special resolution duly passed and confirmed by the company. In Single Bills the petitioners, on moving for intimation and advertisement, craved the Court to dispense in the meantime with the addition of the words “and reduced” to the name of the company, in virtue of the powers conferred by sub-section 2 of section 4 of the Companies Act of 1877. they founded in support of their motion upon the case of Colonial Real Property Company, Limited, March 3, 1896, 23 R. 547.
The Court, in respect that no special reason had been adduced for granting it, refused the motion to dispense with the words “and reduced.”
Counsel for Petitioners— Boswell. Agents— H. B. & F. J. Dewar, W.S.