minor son. Similarly, on January 29, the plaintiff filed a document as per the pro forma.
53. Pausing here for a moment, it requires ... Naik that by filing an application for distribution in the pro forma the plaintiff and/or the widow of the deceased had instituted a claim
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
letter of January 30, 1941, the defendants send to the plaintiff a pro forma invoice in duplicate and say as follows :-
Please return the duplicate ... With his letter of February 3, 1941, the plaintiff returns to the defendants the pro forma invoice.
23. By their letter of February
contended on behalf of the appellants that the present plaintiffs were not simply pro forma defendants in the previous suit, but that they had actively ... present plaintiffs and defendants is not res judicata, his chief reasons being that plaintiffs had been no more than pro forma defendants in the first
defendants as pro forma defendants to the suit, the plaintiff's suit was not properly constituted. Thereupon at the hearing the plaintiff made ... that these two person should have been joined as plaintiffs and not merely as pro-forma defendants. The sama argument appears to have been advanced
referred that there has been recognised the status of a "pro forma defendant", or "a formal defendant," as being something different ... therefore cannot operate against the plaintiff. But I desire to guard myself from bestowing any approval on a pro forma defendant or of recognising such
suit, and were at least jointly entitled to the whole. The pro-forma defendants asked that a decree should be passed in favour ... Civil Procedure Code, by adding the pro-forma defendants as co-plaintiffs with the appellant. Such a course should, in their Lordships' opinion, always
plaintiff in the action which was commenced by a plaint filed on the 16th September 1905. The claim of the plaintiff was based ... 23rd September 1895 executed by the pro forma defendant Mani Mohan Roy in favour of the plaintiff of certain properties, among which was an eight
present plaintiff and Trivenibai were substituted and Trivenibai was shown as the guardian of the present plaintiff. Eventually the appeal was dismissed. The plaintiff filed ... impleaded his mother Trivenibai as a pro forma defendant to the suit. The present plaintiff and Trivenibai preferred an appeal by special leave
which had been granted by the predecessors of the plaintiffs and of certain pro forma defendants to one Srinath Sarkar by a patta dated July ... engaged on zemindari management in the service of the plaintiffs' predecessors who granted him the patta. He died childless in 1890 and his widow
