Mumbai Court March 1881 Judgments

Hassonbhoy Vs. Cowasji Jehangir Jassawalla

Court: Mumbai

Reported in: (1883)ILR7Bom1

West, J.1. In the application with which I have to deal;, the defendant Cowasji prays that the second plaintiff, Hirjibhai, may be committed for contempt in not obeying the order made by Marriott, J., on the 25th September, 1880, that he should give to the defendant inspection of all the documents in his possession, or under his control, of the defendant and of his wife Dosibai. [After some observations, not material to this report, his Lordship continued:]2. As to the property of an application for committal for contempt being made in Court, I have no doubt at all. It may be that such a motion may be made in Chambers, and that thereon the party complained against may be called on to show cause in Chambers when the order disobeyed was originally made in Chambers On the judicial character of orders in chambers see the opinion of Wilmot, C.J., in R. v. Almon, Wilmot's Notes p. 264; but that course, if allowable, as, one or two instances seem to show, by no means implies that a motion in ...