{"id":104360,"date":"1912-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1912-02-27T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/seshagiri-row-vs-vajra-velayudam-pillai-on-28-february-1912"},"modified":"2016-11-01T00:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:22:36","slug":"seshagiri-row-vs-vajra-velayudam-pillai-on-28-february-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/seshagiri-row-vs-vajra-velayudam-pillai-on-28-february-1912","title":{"rendered":"Seshagiri Row vs Vajra Velayudam Pillai on 28 February, 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Seshagiri Row vs Vajra Velayudam Pillai on 28 February, 1912<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1913) ILR 36 Mad 482<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Benson, S Ayyar<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1.The facts of this case are quite similar to those in Mohidin Rowthen v. Nallaperumal Pillai (1911) 21 M.L.J., 1000, and according to the decision in that case the suit is clearly barred; but it is contended that an argument of importance was not submitted to the court in that case, which would have materially influenced the judgment. That argument is that when a plaint returned for presentation to the proper court on the ground of absence of jurisdiction in the court to which it was originally presented is represented to the proper court, the suit itself must be regarded as a continuation of the infructuous suit in the wrong Court. This argument cannot be upheld. Proceedings instituted without jurisdiction cannot be deemed to be legally. valid so as to be capable of being continued in another court. In the case in Takuroodeen Mahomed Eshan Chowdry v. Kurimbux Chowdry (1865) 3 W.B., (C.R.), 20 cited for the appellant the suit was regarded as transferred from one court to another. In such a case of course it is the same suit that is continued in the court to which the transfer is made. The case in Khelat Chunder Ghose v. Nuseebunnissa Bibee (1871) 16 W.R., (C.R.), 47, is not in point as there the question was not one of limitation though, in one portion of the judgment the learned Judges who decided the case speak of the suit being the same where a plaint returned by one court; is represented to another court. In Assan v. Pathumma (1889) I.L.R., 22 Mad., 494, this Court held that the original plaint must be taken to have been merely amended and the case is therefore not similar to this case. Abhoya Churn Chukerbutty v. Gour Mohun Dutt (1875) 24 W.R., (C.R.), 26, is a decision against the respondent&#8217;s contention. Section 14 of Act XV of 1877 proceeded on the basis that where a plaint was returned under Section 20 of Act XIV of 1882 and presented again to another court, the suit must be regarded as a new one and not as a continuation of the former suit. We see no reason to differ from the decision in Mohidin Rowthen v. Nallaperumal Pillai (1911) 21 M.L.J., 1000. We allow the Second Appeal and dismiss the suit. We make no order as to costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Seshagiri Row vs Vajra Velayudam Pillai on 28 February, 1912 Equivalent citations: (1913) ILR 36 Mad 482 Bench: Benson, S Ayyar JUDGMENT 1.The facts of this case are quite similar to those in Mohidin Rowthen v. Nallaperumal Pillai (1911) 21 M.L.J., 1000, and according to the decision in that case the suit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seshagiri Row vs Vajra Velayudam Pillai on 28 February, 1912 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/seshagiri-row-vs-vajra-velayudam-pillai-on-28-february-1912\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seshagiri Row vs Vajra Velayudam Pillai on 28 February, 1912 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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