{"id":56531,"date":"1971-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1971-03-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/v-narayanappa-vs-narayanappa-and-anr-on-16-march-1971"},"modified":"2018-11-10T03:17:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:47:31","slug":"v-narayanappa-vs-narayanappa-and-anr-on-16-march-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/v-narayanappa-vs-narayanappa-and-anr-on-16-march-1971","title":{"rendered":"V. Narayanappa vs Narayanappa And Anr. on 16 March, 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"
Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n
V. Narayanappa vs Narayanappa And Anr. on 16 March, 1971<\/div>\n
Equivalent citations: AIR 1971 Kant 334, AIR 1971 Mys 334, (1971) 1 MysLJ<\/div>\n
Author: H Datar<\/div>\n
Bench: H Datar<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
<\/pre>\n
ORDER<\/p>\n
 H.B. Datar, J. <\/p>\n
 1. The short question that arises for consideration in this revision petition is whether the court below was justified in granting permission to the plaintiff to withdraw the suit with liberty to file a fresh suit on the same cause of action.\n<\/p>\n
 2. The plaintiff filed O. S. No. 425\/64 on the file of the Munsiff, Chickkaballapur. The evidence in the suit was closed by 17-7-1967 and arguments were also heard in part on 24-7-1967. At that stage, an application for amendment of the plaint was filed. That application was reiected and a revision petition C. R. P. No. 1623 of 1967 (Mys) was filed before this court. This court held that the order declining to grant the amendment was one within the jurisdiction of the court below and hence could not be interfered with. After the dismissal of the revision petition by this court, the plaintiff filed I. A. 10 under Order 23, Rule 1 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure stating that regarding adoption, due to some mistake and inadvertence, the time, manner of adoption, custom and other details were not pleaded, that it was a defect in the plaint on account of which he was precluded from leading evidence and that therefore, liberty should be given to him to withdraw the suit. Defendant 1 resisted that application and submitted to the court that the grant of permission at that stage to withdraw the suit could not be given, that the only desire of the plaintiff in withdrawing the suit was to harass the defendant and that, therefore, the application should be rejected.\n<\/p>\n
 3. The learned Munsiff was of the view that the ground upon which the withdrawal of the suit was sought was that there is a formal defect in the plaint and that the formal defect consists in not specifically pleading all facts relating to the adoption of the plaintiff. He, therefore, held as under:–\n<\/p>\n
  “………Upon a perusal of the plaint. it   is   clear   that     what     the     plaintiff ultimately  claims is a  partition    of    the suit schedule properties on the ground of his  alleged   adoption by the  first  defendant and also on    some   other   grounds. This fact, it is clear has not   been   properly pleaded in the plaint.    It   is    true that the plaintiff has come with his application at a stage when the suit is posted for arguments,    but    that   need    not deter the court from considering the application on merits. Since the failure to specifically plead necessary facts regarding the alleged    adoption    as    also    the failure to plead the grounds upon which the plaintiff is entitled to the relief are to be considered sufficient grounds within the meaning of Order 23, Rule 2 (c), I am of opinion that necessary permission to withdraw the suit has to be granted to the plaintiff……….”\n<\/p>\n
 It is this order that is   challenged    now before this court.  \n \n\n 4. The learned Advocate for the petitioner contended that the court below had over-looked the principles governing the grant of permission for withdrawing a suit with liberty to file a fresh suit, that it can be granted only when the court is satisfied that the suit is going to fail by reason of some formal defect or for other sufficient reasons. It was urged that the order of the court below does not disclose that there was either a formal defect or there are other sufficient reasons enabling it to grant permission to withdraw   the   suit In support of this submission, he relied upon several decisions of courts first of which is reported in Jumma    v.    Ram Sahai. (AIR 1934 All 137).    In that case the court followed the earlier judgment of Sir Henry Richards, C. J.. which is to the  following effect :--  \n  \"I consider that a court ought to be very slow to give liberty to bring a fresh suit after a case has been heard   out   on the merits.........I do not    think    that   it ever was intended that a plaintiff should have the power of trying out his case and then at the last moment asking for leave to withdraw with permission to bring a fresh suit. The mere ordering of the plaintiff to pay the defendant's costs does not compensate the latter for being sued a second time.\" \n \n\n<\/pre>\n
 The court also further held that when the lower court grants permission to a party to withdraw the suit with liberty to file a fresh suit in contravention of Order 23 Rule 1, the High Court would be justified in interfering with the order on the ground that the court below has not judicially exercised its discretion, that is to say that it had not taken Into account the provisions of the Rule and decided the matter to the best of its ability in accordance with those provisions.\n<\/p>\n
 5. The second case relied upon is a Full Bench decision of the Bombay High Court in Ramrao v. Appanna, AIR 1940 Bom 121 (FB) wherein it has been held, the expression ‘formal defect’ must be given a wide and liberal meaning and must be deemed to connote every kind of defect which does not affect the merits of the case, whether that defect be fatal to the suit or not. ‘Formal defect’ includes misjoinder of parties or of the matters in suit, rejection of a material document for not having a proper stamp and the erroneous valuation of the subject-matter of the suit. Their Lordships further held that the plaintiff could not withdraw the suit to file a fresh suit claiming title on the ground of adverse possession as there was no defect of form in the suit but a defect of substance arising out of plaintiff’s inability to prove the title on which he had based his claim. It was held that when the court allowed an application contrary to the provisions of Order 23 Rule 1 (2) it was an order without jurisdiction and that the revision petition was maintainable in law.\n<\/p>\n
 6. The High Court of Calcutta In the case reported in Abdul Sobhan v. Samasuddin Ahmed. (AIR 1931 Cal 336) has laid down that a court should give adequate reasons when granting permission to a plaintiff to withdraw the suit. When there is no finding as to the formal defect on account of which the suit must fail the court has no jurisdiction to permit a fresh suit to be brought. Similar is the view in the later judgment of the Allahabad High Court in Baldeo Dass v. Gauri Dutt.  where it has been stated that if the object of the application made under O. 23, Rule 1 is to attempt to introduce a new matter in controversy then that cannot be done by permitting the party to withdraw the suit and file a fresh suit.\n<\/p>\n
 7.       It is   clear from the    material on record in this case that the    plaintiff tried to have the    matter    of    adoption brought before   court by means    of    an application for    amendment.    That    application  was  rejected    and    this    court declined to interfere with that order    as the same could be    challenged    by    the plaintiff in an appeal under Section   105 C: P. C., if the plaintiff failed in the suit and  filed an  appeal before the appellate court.    When the plaintiff’s attempt    to lave the amendment of the plaint failed the present application   is   filed    stating that there is a formal defect.    The defect stated in the present    case    should    not come    into    any   of    the    categories    of ‘formal defect’  stated in AIR 1940 Bom 121 (FB). I am of the view that the court below    had   no     jurisdiction   in     these circumstances  to     grant    permission     or liberty to withdraw the suit with permission to file a fresh suit.    The only reason stated by the learned Munsiff is that the plaintiff having    failed    in    his    amendment application is denied    an    opportunity to    prove    the    matter   and    hence there    is    a formal    defect.    This    view taken by the learned Munsiff as to what ‘formal defect’ is, in my opinion,    plainly erroneous. Having regard to the principle stated earlier, this is a case in which the attempt to introduce a new matter at a late stage having failed,   the  plaintiff wants to take advantage    of    having    a fresh trial  by having the other matters which were rejected being brought into the new suit.    That is not the object for which the provision is made under Order 23, Rule 1 C. P. C., I am therefore, of the opinion that the court below has exercised the jurisdiction not vested in    it    by allowing the plaintiff to withdraw    the suit with liberty    to    file a    fresh   suit That order has to be set aside.\n<\/p>\n
 8. In the result, the revision petition is allowed; the order of the court below passed on 6-1-1969 in O. S. No. 425\/64 is set aside. IA No. 10 is dismissed. The learned Munsiff is now directed to hear and dispose of the original suit in accordance with law.\n<\/p>\n
 9.       No costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karnataka High Court V. Narayanappa vs Narayanappa And Anr. on 16 March, 1971 Equivalent citations: AIR 1971 Kant 334, AIR 1971 Mys 334, (1971) 1 MysLJ Author: H Datar Bench: H Datar ORDER H.B. Datar, J. 1. The short question that arises for consideration in this revision petition is whether the court below was justified […]<\/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":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-karnataka-high-court"],"yoast_head":"\nV. 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