Satyadhyan Ghosal And Others vs Sm. Deorajin Debi And Another on 20 April, 1960
After taking into consideration of both the parallel views expressed by the Supreme Court in Satyadhyan Ghosal v. Smt. Deorajin Debi and Smt. Sukhrani (dead) by LR's v. Hari Shanker , the view in Harishankar appears to be sound for the reasons that Section 11 of the Civil Procedure Code specifically stipulates that, "No court shall try any suit or issue in which the matter directly and substantially in issue has been directly and substantially in issue in a former suit between the same parties, or between parties under whom they or any of them, claim, litigating under the same title, in a court competent to try such subsequent suit or the suit in which such issue has been subsequently raised, and has been heard and finally decided by such court." In an interlocutory stage, the point for determination alone would be considered and issue as required to be considered in Order 14 of the Civil Procedure Code, where issues arise when a material proposition of fact or law is affirmed by one party and denied by the other. Sub-clause (2) of Order 14 of the Civil Procedure Code states "Material propositions are those propositions of law or fact which a plaintiff must allege in order to show a right to sue or a defendant must allege in order to constitute his defence." Such an amount of opportunities were not available to the parties at the time of hearing the interlocutory applications and, therefore, the order passed in the interlocutory applications may not fall within the principles of res judicata. Hence, the appellant is not precluded from raising the plea of limitation.