pro forma defendant (pro forma defendant No. 7). This suit will be called hereinafter as the title suit and whenever the words plaintiffs or defendants ... filed by Mr. Monmohan Shaha on behalf of plaintiff No. 1 plaintiff No. 2 and pro forma defendant No. 7. It has been found that
plaintiff. There are cases where plaintiff filed a suit who has interest in common to the person whom he makes pro forma defendant, in collusion ... attempts to withdraw the suit on the rights of all other pro forma plaintiffs or pro forma defendants or defendants who have a cause
reliefs as follows :
"(A) The exclusive title of the plaintiff and pro forma defendant Nos. 6 to 11 in respect of the suit land ... eastern border of the suit plot be delivered to the plaintiff and pro forma defendants 6 to 11 by evicting defendant
convenient to have before us the family tree of the plaintiffs and the pro forma defendant-respondents in both the suits.
Ram Lagan Ram
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Anant ... pro forma defendants 3 to 10 in Suit 15 of 1967 except for pro forma defendant Surendra Prasad are the pro forma defendants
pro forma defendants against the trespasser, the plea of jus tertii will not again be available to them unless they claim through the pro forma ... possession may be passed jointly in favour of the plaintiffs and this pro forma defendant. They persisted in their denial of the right
labourers forcibly started cutting paddy and thereby dispossessed the plaintiff and pro forma defendant Nos. 2 and 3.
5. In his written statement the defendant ... inter alia, raised the plea that the plaintiff and pro forma Defendant No. 2 gave up their life interest in the 2/3rd share
defendant 2 and Mokbul is 'pro forma' defendant 4, and their three sisters are 'pro forma' defendants 5 to 7. Defendant ... parties in that suit which included also the present plaintiff, though as a 'pro forma' defendant. It is, however, contended by Mr. Ghose
Osara of Plot No. 1766".
The plaintiffs' story of the pro forma defendants having constructed the osara, nads, etc., was denied ... plaintiffs.
4. The learned Munsif who tried the suit decreed the plaintiffs' suit in full. He held that the pro forma defendants had subsisting
said that they did not join the plaintiffs in the suit, and are therefore made pro forma defendants. It is stated that they be exempted ... filed a written statement and were styled as pro forma defendants in the plaint itself. The plaintiffs stated expressly in p.11 of the plaint
true, as Mr. Nambiar contends, the theory of a nominal or pro forma plaintiff is untenable. A plaintiff unlike a defendant comes voluntarily ... although the law knows of a pro forma defendant, the idea of a pro forma plaintiff is repugnant to it. But still it seems
