Chennai Court August 1881 Judgments

Muttu Samarapuri Chetti Vs. Shanmuga Chetti and anr.

Court: Chennai

Reported in: (1882)ILR5Mad47

Tarrant, J.1. In Original Suit No. 128 of 1878 the plaintiff in the present suit sued the present defendants for Rs. 3,805-13-3, alleged to be due from the defendants to the plaintiff, under a verbal partnership arrangement, said to have been continued down to the month of Karthigai of the year Dhatu (November 1877), when the defendants, in consequence of disputes between them, requested the plaintiff to carry on the business on his own account for a few months--which he did--a subsequent desire of the defendants to rejoin the plaintiff not being carried out on account of certain changes in the Government salt rules having had the effect of raising the price of salt and having made it inexpedient for the parties to continue the business. This partnership was entered into between plaintiff and defendants some time in the month of Ani, in the year Yuva (June and July 1875); for the carrying on of a business in the purchase and sale of salt, and which business, it was further alleged, the...