[1967]DLHC1531 • January 17, 1967 • High Court
POLITIS AND ANOTHER vs. PLASTICO LTD.
The applicants, personal representatives of the late Dr. Dimitra Politis, who was majority shareholder and director of Plastico Ltd., sought rectification of the company's register of members to substitute their names for the deceased's. They subsequently applied under section 217 of the Companies Code to declare certain acts of the company or its surviving director null and void.
read moreJUDGMENT OF AMISSAH J. A. The applicants herein are personal representatives of one Dr. Dimitra Politis who while she lived was the holder of the majority shares in, and one of the two directors of, a company by the name of Plastico Ltd. On 23 December 1966, the applicants obtained an order from this court that the company should rectify its register of members by placing the names of the applicants, obviously in substitution of the late Dr. Politis, on the register. The applicants have now brought this application under section 217 of the Companies Code, 1963 (Act 179), for an order declaring certain acts of the company, or, of the director surviving Dr. Politis, null and void. Mr. Amissah-Aidoo who represents the company and one other respondent to this application has raised the preliminary objection that the applicants qua administrators of the late Dr. Politis have no locus standi to bring this application. The only, and presumably the best authority he has for this proposition i...