Major S. S. Khanna vs Brig. F.J. Dillon on 14 August, 1963
In S.S. Khanna v. F.J. Dillon , the Supreme Court held that the jurisdiction to try issues of law apart from the issues of fact may be exercised only where in the opinion of the Court that the whole suit may be disposed of on the issue of law alone and the Code conferred no jurisdiction upon the Court to try a suit on merely issues of law and facts as preliminary issues and normally all the issues should be tried by the Court and that failure to do so would result in a lopsided trial of the suit.