Judgment

KRISHNA IYER, J.,- Undaunted by a direction of the State Government under the Uttar Pradesh Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (the U. P. Act, for short), unsuccessfully attacked before a learned single Judge and in appeal from his judgment, the appellant-owner of two sugar factories in Uttar Pradesh - has secured special leave to reach this Court and press before us a few jurisdictional points which, if valid, are deprivatory of the impugned notification under S. 3 (b) of the Act. Before we open the discussion, and, indeed, as paving the way for it, we may remind ourselves of a jural fundamental articulated elegantly in a different context by Mr. Justice Cardozo: *(1)

* (1) Benjamin Nathan Cardozo "What Medicine can do for Law" address before the New York Academy of Medicine, Nov. 1 1928 - Readings in Law and Psychiatry.

"More and more we lawyers are awaking to a perception of the truth that what divides and distracts us in the solution of a legal problem is not so much uncertainty about the law as uncertainty about the facts - the facts which generate the law. Let the facts be known as they are, and the law will sprout from the seed and turn its branches toward the light."

2. Soc