Administrative company judge orders on liquidator's business management were held not appealable.

Orders of the company judge approving the liquidator's proposal to run the restaurants through contractors were treated as administrative, because they only sanctioned the liquidator's mode of conducting the company in liquidation and did not decide any right to property or any comparable lis between the parties. The choice of how the business should be run was left to the liquidator's discretion under the company judge's control, and a decision based on such subjective business consideration was held to be administrative rather than judicial. The result was that the orders were not appealable.

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Issues: Whether the orders of the company judge approving the liquidator's proposal for running the restaurants through contractors were administrative orders not giving rise to an appeal.

Analysis: The impugned orders merely sanctioned the liquidator's manner of conducting the business of the company in liquidation and did not determine any right to property or any comparable lis between the parties. The choice of how the restaurants should be run was treated as a matter left to the liquidator's subjective discretion under the control of the company judge, and a decision resting on such subjective consideration was held to be administrative in character rather than judicial.

Conclusion: The orders were held to be administrative and not appealable.

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