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BBCOFD/10/01

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Reference Number: BBCOFD/10/01

Description: Documents relating to the Chancery Court action brought by the International Finance Society Ltd against Barings, the plaintiffs and defendants being creditors of SB Hale of Buenos Aires.Note: The plaintiffs objected to the action of Barings in transferring to themselves absolutely various property in Argentina and Uruguay belonging to Hale & Co, claiming that the transfers should have been made for the benefit of all the creditors of Hale & Co following the failure to finish work on Buenos Aires Waterworks and the liquidation of the company. The plaintiffs also objected to the method in which Hale & Co had been liquidated in 1893 and their assets taken over by the newly formed River Plate Commercial Co.The documents were presented to counsel by Francis H Baring.See also LEG58-59.Papers relating to the liquidation of Samuel B Hale & Co [HC4.1.71] and the transfer of their real estate to Barings. Being Francis H Baring's deposition [annotated in ink]; letter from Arthur Bowden Smith to Samuel B Hale; the reservation of part of the estate of Mrs Pearson; Arthur Bowden Smith's report from Buenos Aires.

Date: 1890-1893

TBAL Reference: 204389.1

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Deposition Francis Henry Baring during the Legal Action of International Finance Society Ltd

Statement from Arthur Bowden Smith re Legal Action ofInternational Finance Society Ltd

Copies of correspondence relating to Argentina presented during Legal Action of International Finance Society Ltd