Privy Council Court June 1945 Judgments

Secretary of State Vs. G. Krishna Rao

Court: Privy Council

Lord Goddard: The action out of which this appeal arises was brought by the respondent in the Court of the Subordinate Judge, Coimbatore, for an injunction restraining the Government of the Province of Madras from levying water cess from the plaintiff or his ryots in respect of a jaghir consisting of seven shotriem villages in the Coimbatore taluk. The learned Subordinate Judge dismissed the action, and his judgment was affirmed by the learned District Judge of Coimbatore. His judgment was reversed by the High Court of Madras, which granted the injunction on 28th July 1942, and against that judgment this appeal is brought. In this judgment, which was delivered by Somayya J., with whom Abdur Rahman J., concurred, the High Court said that the only question they had to decide was whether under the grant in question all the rights which the Government possessed (that is all the rights in the lands in question) had passed to the grantee and with this their Lordships agree. The appellant con...

Subbiah Ready and Another Vs. T. Jardon

Court: Privy Council

Sir John Beaumont: This is an appeal from the judgment and decree of the Additional Judge of the Court of the Honourable the British Resident in Mysore, Bangalore, dated 14th August 1940, varying a judgment and decree of the District Judge, Bangalore, dated 20th November 1939. The claim of the plaintiff was for damages for injuries sustained by him in an accident to a motor car in which he was a passenger. He sued J.G. Anniah Reddy, defendant 1 and appellant 2 who was the driver of the car, and his father, J. Subbiah Reddy, defendant 2 and original appellant 1, who was the owner of the car. Subbiah died on 20th December 1940, and appellants (i) to (xvi) are his legal representatives. The material facts are that in September 1937, the plaintiff, who was a motor engineer and salesman, was negotiating for a position in International Motors, Bangalore, a concern owned by defendant 2, in which defendant 1 was employed. In the morning of 27th September, whilst the draft of a proposed agreeme...

Harold White Vs. the King

Court: Privy Council

Reported in: AIR1945PC181

Sir John Beaumont: This is an appeal by special leave from the judgment of the Court of Appeal at Jamaica, dated 6th January 1944, dismissing the appellant's appeal on his conviction before Watts J. and a jury at Sav-la-Mar on the Northern Circuit for the Parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica, on 26th November 1943, for the murder of Lamton Woolcock on 2nd September 1913. The appellant was arraigned on indictment before Watts J. with the murder, on 2nd September 1943, of Lamton Woolcock in the Parish of Westmoreland. He pleaded "Not Guilty" and a jury of 12 men was sworn to try the case. The trial proceeded from 22nd to 26th November 1943, when the appellant was found guilty and convicted and sentenced to death. He appealed to the Court of Appeal in Jamaica, and on 6th January 1944, his appeal was dismissed without any reasons being given by the Court. At the conclusion of the argument, before this Board their Lordships announced that they would humbly advise His Majesty that the appeal shou...