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Chunbidya and Others Vs. Emperor

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Criminal

Advocate for Appellant : C. Sidney Smith, for Petitioners; W. Wallach, for the Crown. Solicitors for Petitioners, Hy. S.L. Polak and Co.; Solicitors for Respondent, Solicitor India Office.

Lord Atkin: This is an application for special leave to appeal from a judgment of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad. The question arose in this way. The petitioners were tried before the Divisional Sessions...

Nazir Ahmad Vs. Emperor

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Criminal

Reported in : AIR1936PC253(1)

Advocate for Appellant : C. Sidney Smith, for Appellant; W. Wallach, for the Crown. Solicitors for Appellant, H.S.L. Polak and Co.; Solicitor for Respondent, The Solicitor, India Office.

LORD BLANESBURGH: Their Lordships desire to re-affirm in this case the very exceptional circumstances in which alone they will humbly advise His Majesty to grant leave to appeal in a criminal case. They would not have...

Monohar Mukerji Vs. Bhupendra Nath Mukerji and Others

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Reported in : AIR1936PC325

Advocate for Appellant : A.M. Dunne and Denning, for Appellant; L. DeGruyther and C. Sidney Smith, for Respondents. Solicitors for Appellant, Vallence and Vallence; Solicitors for Respondents, Harold Shephard.

LORD THANKERTON: This is an appeal from the judgment and decree of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, dated 26th April 1928, which set aside a decree of the Subordinate Judge of...

Pandit Parma Nand Vs. Nihal Chand and Another

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : D.N. Pritt and C. Sidney Smith, for Appellant; A.M. Dunne and W. Wallach, for Respondents. Solicitors for Appellant, Hy.S.L. Polak and Co., Solicitors for Respondents, T.L. Wilson and Co.

Sir Shadi Lal: In the town of Gujranwala, there is a building variously described as Baghichi Thakaran or Gurdwara Baghichi, and the main issue, which their Lordships have to determine in this appeal, is whether that...

Thakur Bhagwan Singh and Others Vs. Bishambar Nath (Minor) and Others

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Reported in : AIR1940PC114

Advocate for Appellant : C. Sidney Smith, for Appellants; L.P.E. Pugh and T.B. Wilson Ramsay, for Respondents. Solicitors for Appellants, Douglas Grant and Dold; Solicitors for Respondents, T.L. Wilson and Co.

LORD JUSTICE GODDARD: This is an appeal from a judgment of the High Court of Allahabad dismissing an appeal by the present appellants and allowing an appeal by the first three respondents from a judgment of...

Rani Huzur Ara Begam and Another Vs. Deputy Commissioner, Gonda, and O ...

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : J.P. Eddy, M.H. Rashid and M.P. Srivastava, for Appellants ; L.P.E. Pugh, S. Hyam, Cyril Radcliffe, W. Wallach, C.R. Russell and C. Sidney Smith, for Respondents. Solicitors for Appellants, Nehra and Co. ; Solicitors for Respondents, Barrow Rogers and Nev

Sir Shadi Lal: Raja Mohammad Mumtaz Ali Khan, taluqdar of the Utraula Estate in the District of Gonda of the Oudh Province, obtained on 22nd April 1930, against Raja Saadat Ali Khan, taluqdar of the Nanpara...

Tyagaraja Mudaliyar and Another Vs. Vedathanni

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : L. DeGruyther and P.V. Subba Row, for Appellants; A.M. Dunne and C. Sidney Smith, for Respondent. Solicitors for Appellants, Harold Shephard; Solicitors for Respondent, Hy.S.L. Polak and Co.

Sir John Wallis: The plaintiff Vedathanni, widow of the late Ramalinga Mudaliyar, who died without issue on 23rd December 1912, instituted this suit, on 25th July 1925, in the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Negapatam,...

Mohammad Ismail and Others Vs. Hanuman Parshad and Another

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : C. Sidney Smith, for Appellants, J. M Parikh, for Respondent No. 1. Solicitors for Appellants, Hy.S. L. Polak and Co. Solicitors for Respondent No.1, T.L. Wilson and Co.

Sir George Lowndes: For the purpose of this judgment the facts may be stated quite shortly. In the main they are not in dispute. One Mahomad Sadiq, the father of the appellants, was (prior to the...

Ramachandra Deo Mahaharajulungaru Vs. Sri Lakshiminarasimha Bahadur an ...

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : W.H. Upjohn and J.M. Parikh, for Appellant; K.V.L. Narasimham and C. Sidney Smith, for Respondents. Solicitors for Appellant, Hy. S.L. Polak and Co., Solicitors for Respondents, Harold Shephard and T.L. Wilson and Co.

Sir John Wallis: By a well-advised compromise made between the appellant, the Maharajah of Jeypore, a zemindar in the Madras Presidency, and the principal respondents, the Zemindar of Pachipenta and his two minor sons and ordered...

M.P.M. Murugappa Chetti and Another Vs. Official Assignee, Madras

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : Sir Herbert Cunliffe, C. Sidney Smith and Mrs. M.J. Clarke, for Appellants; Ronald F. Roxburgh and Berrett, for Respondent. Solicitors for Appellants, Douglas, Grant and Dold; Solicitors for Respondent, Burton, Yeats and Hart.

SIR GEORGE LOWNDES: These consolidated appeals arise out of a petition presented by Murugappa Chetti and his brother Ramaswami Chetti (since deceased and now represented by his widow Minakshi Achi) in certain insolvency proceedings in the...