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BenjamIn Knowles Vs. Emperor

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Criminal

Advocate for Appellant : D.L. Pritt and Horace Douglas, for Appellant; Attorney General C.H. Pearson, for the Crown. Solicitors or Appellant, Wynne, Baxter and Keeble; Solicitors for Respondent, Burchells.

Viscount Dunedin: This appeal, for which special leave was granted by His Majesty in Council is against a conviction of the appellant for the murder of his wife, Mrs. Knowles, by the Acting Circuit Judge of...

H.H.B. Gill and Another Vs. the King

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : Sir Valentine Holmes and A.G.P. Pullan, for Appellants; Sir Walter Monckton and J. Megan, for The King. Solicitors for Appellants, W.W. Box and Co.; Solicitors for The King, High Commissioner for India.

LORD SIMONDS: This appeal which is brought from a judgment of the Federal Court of India dated 11 - 12 - 1946, raises questions of difficulty and general importance. They relate in the first place to...

Pondicherry Railway Co. Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Income-tax, Madras

Court : Privy Council

Subject : MRTP

Advocate for Appellant : St. J.J. Mickletchwait, and J.S. Scrimgeour, for Appellants; A.M. Dunne and R.P. Hills, for Respondent. Solicitors for Appellants, Freshfield, Leese and Muns; Solicitors for Respondent, The Solicitor, India Office.

Lord Macmillan: For the years 1925-26 and 1926-27 assessment to income-tax and super-tax under the Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922) were made on "the Agent, Pondicherry Ry. Co. Ltd., Trichinopoly" in respect of the income...

Mangal Singh Vs. King-emperor

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : M.H. Rashid, for Appellant; W. Wallach, for the Crown. Solicitors for Appellant, Nehra and Co., Solicitors for the Crown, Solicitor, India office.

LORD ALNESS: This is an appeal by special leave from a judgment and order of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, dated 27th April 1936, which affirmed the conviction of the appellant and the sentence...

Smt. Premila Devi and Others Peoples Bank of Northern India Ltd. (In L ...

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Company

Advocate for Appellant : A.M. Dunne and J.M. Pringle, for Appellants ; Lionel C. Cohen and W. Wallach, for Respondents. Solicitors for Appellant, Hy. S.L. Polak and Co. ; Solicitors for Respondent, Cardew Smith and Ross.

Lord Romer: These are three consolidated appeals from the order of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore dated 10th March 1936, made upon an application by the Official Liquidator of the respondents, the Peoples Bank...

Raja Bahadur Sir Rajendra Narayan Bhanj Deo Vs. Commissioner of Income ...

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : L P.E. Pugh and J.M. Pringle, for Appellant; J.M. Tucker and H. Hull, for Respondent. Solicitors for Appellant, A.J. Hunter and Co., Solicitors for Respondent, The Solicitor, India Office.

LORD JUSTICE LUXMOORE: The appellant was at the date of his assessment; for income tax for the year ending 31st March, 1932, the proprietor of an estate known as the Kanika Raj or Killah Kanika situate...

Sri Radha Krishna Thakurji and Another Vs. (Babu) Raghunandan Sinha an ...

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : L. DeGruyther and J.M. Parikh, for Appellants; Sir Dawson Miller and W. Wallach, for Respondents. Solicitors for Appellants, Callingham Ormond and Maddox; Solicitors for Respondents, W.W. Box and Co.

Lord Thankerton: This is an appeal from a decree of the High Court of Judicature at Patna dated 18th November 1929 which reversed a decree of the Subordinate Judge at Darbhanga dated 26th January 1927 and...

Richard Phillip Phillips and Others Vs. William Francis Barns

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Reported in : AIR1937PC314

Advocate for Appellant : R.P. Croom Johnson and Valentine Holmes, for Appellants; F.P.M. Schiller and H.G. Robertson, for Respondent. Solicitors for Appellant, William Charles Crocker; Solicitors for Respondent, Petch and Co.

LORD ROCHE: This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Appeal for the Federated Malay States dated 8th October 1935 (Burton, J., Terrell, J.: Sir Samuel Thomas, C. J. dissenting) allowing an appeal...

(Mian) Feroz Shah Vs. Income-tax Commissioner, Punjab, and N.W.F. Prov ...

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Direct Taxation

Advocate for Appellant : Roland Burrows and R. Hills, for Appellant; A.M. Dunne and W. Wallach, for Respondent. Solicitors for Appellant, Lewis and Yglesias; Solicitors for Respondent, The, Solicitor, India Office.

LORD BLANESBURGH: This appeal is concerned with an assessment to income-tax in respect of the profits of his business, made upon the appellant under the provisions of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922, by the Income-tax Officer...

Commissioner of Income-tax, Bihar and Orissa Vs. Kameshwar Singh

Court : Privy Council

Subject : Land Acquisition

Advocate for Appellant : A.M. Dunne and Thomas Strangman, for Appellant; A.M. Latter, K.P. Jayaswal and C.J. Colombos, for Respondent. Solicitors for Appellant, Solicitor, India Office; Solicitors for Respondent, Hy.S.L. Polak and Co.

Lord Macmillan: The present appeal arises from an assessment to income-tax made upon the respondent for the year 1929-30 and the only question before their Lordships relates to an item of Rs.91,283 included in the assessment....