Raja Himanshudhar Singh vs Ram Hitkari And Ors. on 29 March, 1963
In Rani Dhandei Kuer v. Fatma Zuhra, AIR 1939 All 698, Thom, C. J. and Ganga Nath, J. decided that when an appeal arising out of a suit for injunction arid damages abates against B it cannot proceed against A and must be dismissed as incompetent. The learned Judges did not refer to the cases of Shibban, AIR 1934 All 716 and Ram Dei, AIR 1930 All 762. There A and B were alleged to have done the act jointly, which is not the case in the instant appeal. The learned Judges said that even if the plaintiff could compel A to close down the market he could not compel B's legal representatives to do so and that if he got a decree against A it would not be capable of being executed. With great respect to the learned Judges I do not see any difficulty in the plaintiff's compelling A to close down the market even if B's legal representatives are left free to run it. It is not impossible for A to refrain from doing the act even if B is left free to do it and, if the plaintiff has a right to require A to desist from doing the act, there is no reason why the Court should not give him a decree for injunction against A, even it the same act can be done by B's legal representatives. It is not easy to understand what the learned Judges meant by saying that the appeal against A was "imperfect"; the Civil Procedure Code does not explain what is an "imperfect" appeal and how it stands in the eye of law.