Court : Mumbai
Decided on : Feb-04-1926
Reported in : (1926)28BOMLR1391
John Edge, J.1. This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from a decree, dated March 14, 1922, of the High Court at Madras, which was made in its appellate civil jurisdiction and varied as decree, dated October 20, 1920, of a Judge of the same Court, which was made in the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court.2. The appeal arises in a suit which was instituted with the leave of the High Court on Februarys, 1919, in the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court by the plaintiffs, who live in the city of Madras, to obtain a decree against Les Tanneries Lyonnaises and their agent Monsieur J. Marret for money alleged to be due to the plaintiffs under a contract for the sale and delivery of goat skins under a contract of May 25, 1917, and under a contract of January 26, 1918, for the sale and delivery of sheep skins. There was another defendant to the suit named, C, Sowrimuthoerya Oodayar, against whom no relief was claimed. The suit was tried and the decree of the t...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Mumbai
Decided on : Dec-22-1926
Reported in : (1927)29BOMLR361; 101Ind.Cas.582
Patkar, J.1. In this case the petitioner Pestanji Ratanji Dabu and Company of Surat took an Ijara Patta from the original deceased defendant Ranjitsangji Sursangji, Chieftain of Sansthan Kathi in Mewas, West Khandesh District, for the cutting of a forest in 1919 for Rs. 85,000. The petitioner filed a suit in the Court of the Mewas Agent, who is the Collector of West Khandesh, against Ranjitsangji to recover Rs. 21,000 with costs and rupees one lac for damages. Certain preliminary issues were decided by the Mewas Agent on December 23, 1924, and Ranjitsangji filed civil revisional application No. 163 of 1925 in the High Court. In that application a Rule was issued by this Court on June 15, 1925, and was discharged with costs on February 10, 1926.2. Ranjitsangji died, and the Collector of West Khandesh as representing the Court of Wards was substituted in his place as his legal representative.3. On July 8, 1926, the petitioner applied to the Mewas Agent that he himself in his capacity as ...
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