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 December 7 1925

The trial Court found that the deceased had with him currency notes of the amount stated and that the notes were not mentioned in the list of property found at the place of the accident. [...] The trial Court decreed the suit in its entirety and the railway administration preferred an appeal to the High Court which was confined to the question as to whether the suit could succeed as to the value of the currency notes lost by the deceased. [...] The High Court did not accept this contention as in its opinion the legislature did not intend to draw any distinction between the two words and to alter the rule against the award of remote damages by the mere use of the term “ occasioed ” and that the statute by enacting the rule allowing the legal representatives to include in their suit a claim for the loss to the estate did not create any [...] The procedure adopted was that while the Clerk of the Court was reading over his evdence to the witness who had last left the box another witness was being examined and the accused and his Counsel were unable to check ;my errors in the deposition of the Nvitness and at the same time to listen to the evidence of the new witness. [...] Magistrate and was in the hands of Counsel for the Crown at the time of the heaing of the appeal but no communication was made to the accused or to his advisers.