The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday June 29 1914

The Plaintiff who was the agent of the.Assam Labour Supply Association in certain ditricts in the Madras Presidency sought to recover damages from the Secretary of State for India in Council in respect of two orders made by the Collector of Ganjam and for alleged defamtion of the Plaintiff. [...] The liabilities of the East India Company his Lordship said could not have been any less than those of the Crown in England on a petition of right and this being not a case in which a petition of right would lie against the Crown at the instance of the Plaintiff and as the Company would not have been liable for the acts of its servants merely on the ground that they were done in the course of e [...] During the course of certain insolvency proceedings the accused filed an affidavit before the Official Assignee in Madras in which he asserted the genuineness of the execution of a promissory note and the deposit of the title-deeds. [...] Now it is admitted to be the law that to maintain this action the relationship that justifies the mainteance of the action must exist at the time of the seduction and also at the time of the illness cosequent upon it that deprives the Plaintiff of the girl’s services. [...] The effect of the judgment was that as the father was alive and the daughter living in his house at the time of the seduction he alone was the person who could have maintained the action and that the mother could not because.