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 April 3 1899

The question of increasing the salaries of the Judges of the High Court has been discussed in the newspapers and was also referred to by the Chief Justice in eloquent terms on the occasion of his unveiling the portrait of Sir Comer Petheram. [...] Plaintiff The dignity of the highest Court in the land has having appealed the matter came before the Appeal been raised why then should the salaries of its Court the Defendants-Respondents asking for security Judges be reduced 7 The prestige and popularity of for costs of the appeal.. [...] The ordinary course to take would be to costs of the appeal if the Appellant failed the Court dismiss the application on payment of costs by the would order security for the costs of the appeal. [...] The c(!rnment was made ment in the above appeal a note of which appeared in on the Official Receiver's report prior to its present3 C. W. N. cxxxii advising Her Majesty to reverse 'tion to the Court btit the report itself had -appeared the decree appealed from and restore that of the in the press the 'day before the coniment which the District Judge of Ganjatn. [...] registered in the Sherista of the landlord that the This was an appeal preferred by the Plaintiffs Defendant was one of the heirs and as such in posseagainst a decree of the Additional Suberdinate Judge sion of at least his share of the dur-putni and that of Burdwan reversing the decree of the Munsif of he was in actual possession of the entire land Bud Bud and it itrose out of a suit to re