The Chief Justice.-This appeal relates to the affairs of a company incorporated under the Indian Companies Act called the Hindustan Investment and Financial Trust Ltd., Madras. The managing director of the company convened the annual general meeting of the company for 31st December, 1950 by notice dated 14th December, 1950. On 26th December 1950, one Mrs. Ananthalakshmi Ammal a shareholder of the company, who is the appellant before us, filed an application (No.4988 of 1950) on the Original Side of this Court for the appointment of an independent chairman to hold and conduct the annual general meeting to be held on 31st December, 1950, with power to scrutinize all the proxies and record the proceedings of the meeting. The application first came up before the Judge sitting in the Christmas vacation (one of us, Somasundaram, J.) who made an interim order on 27th December, 1950 adjourning the meeting to 28th January, 1951 and posting the application for final disposal after reopening of the Court. The application itself was eventually disposed of on 16th January, 1951, by Krishnaswami Nayudu, J., who appointed an advocate of this Court to preside over the annual general meeting to be

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