The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday August 5 1912

The new rules for the taxtion of costs on the Original Side published in the Gazette of India of Saturday the 27th July last and which would come in force on the re-opening of the High Court after the Poojah Vacation will go to reduce the cost of litigation 241ccxlii THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] The action out of which the appeal arose was commenced on the 8th April 191o by a writ of summons in the Supreme Court of British Colubia by the Respondent who was the Plaintiff against the Appellant the Defendant. [...] The order of their Lordships accordingly was that the Appeal should be allowed and the judgment of Hunter C. J. dismissing the action should be restored with the further costs incurred in both Courts since the date of that judgment the Respondent being also directed to pay the costs of the Appeal. [...] In neither of the Appellate Courts was the petitioner made a party but when on the 5th July 1910 the Opposite Party applied to the District Judge for sanction to prosecute the Petitioner the Pettioner on the 22nd July 1910 filed his objection and on the 5th August 1910 prayed for stay of proceedings pending the hearing of the appeal in the High Court and on the 6th August 1910 the Opposite P [...] The Defendants' main contention was that the question of the amount of rent payable having been finally decided in the rent suit of 1905 and the six plots of land included in the suit being included in the eight plots of the previous rent suit this suit was barred by the rule of res judicata.