GOVINDA MENON J.

These appeals arise out of the winding up proceedings of the Vizianagaram Mining Co. Ltd., which had been incorporated and registered under the Companies Act then in force in England on 8th December, 1894. The main location of its business was on the Vizagapatam District of the then Presidency of Madras, where various minerals were moved by the company. Its principal place of business for the address to be given under Section 277 of the Companies Act was Kodur. In that company, the Raja of Vizianagaram was a shareholder and he had also leased out to the company the lands on which the mining was going on under three separate leases. While matters were in this state, O.P. No. 25 of 1946 was filed on the Original Side of this court by the Raja on 29th January, 1946. Thereafter, further proceedings relating to the winding up were transferred to the District Court of Visakhapatnam and the petitions out which the above appeals have arisen were taken in the said District Court. On 11th July, 1950, in Application No. 732 of 1950 the proceedings have been re-transferred to the Original Side of this court and we are informed that the Official receiver, Madras, is