Craven v Blackpool Greyhound Stadium & Racecourse Ltd    Companies – Winding up – Proof by creditor – Liquidator’s award – Dissatisfaction of
creditor – Action for damages – Stay.
A director of a limited company, which went in to voluntary liquidation, put in a proof in the
liquidation in respect of arrears of salary and damages for dismissal. The liquidator allowed
the proof. The director being dissatisfied with the amount awarded to him brought an action
for damages against the company in the King’s Bench Division. The company applied for a
stay of the action on the ground that the director, if dissatisfied with the liquidator’s decision,
should appeal to a judge in the Chancery Division. The judge refused to stay the action. The
company appealed:—