The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters April 1 1918

of all Persons using the station and the guests of the hotels the undertaking to serve the public indiscriminately is sufficiently clear to make the taxicab company a common carrier. [...] Held by the Taxing officer that there is nothing in section 5 of the Court-Fees Act to prevent a respondent as one of the parties to the suit from making a reference to the Taxing officer provided there is a difference between him and the Deputy Registrar as to the proper Court-fee which should be paid by the appellant. [...] It is open to the Taxing officer to deal with the question as to the correct Court-fee to be paid by the appellant although the appeal was accepted and r( gistered by the Deputy Registrar. [...] Certain property having been acquired under the Land Acquisition Act the Collector awarded the compensation money to Nritya Kali Debi a Hindu widow the respondent in the present appeal and the present appellant with two others Obtained a reference under section 18 of the Act to the Calcutta Improvement Tribunal. [...] The widow claimed the money on the ground that the property was her `stridhan' property; the objectors stated that the property was really her deceased husband's; that they were the reversionary heirs and that as the respondent had no power to alienate the propetties the compensation money should be invested and dealt with in the manner provided by section 32 of the Land Acquisition Act.