ISSUE:
Whether the agents i.e. the promoters of the company were liable for the pre-incorporation contract when the contract had been ratified by Gravesend after the incorporation?
RULE:
This case is concerned with the enforcement of a pre-incorporation contract. The position is that a pre-incorporation contract does not bind the company, although certain exceptions exist in this regard. However, this case reaffirmed the standing position that a company is not bound by any contract that it may have entered into before the company was incorporated.