JUDGMENT

ORDER:— Sri Thillaivillalan is an Advocate who was appearing for the Corporation of the City of Madras in several of its cases. He was engaged to appear for the Corporation in a large number of cases in various Courts in the City of Madras. Some dispute having arisen touching the remuneration for his professional services to the Corporation, he brought a writ petition before the High Court for issue of appropriate directions to the Corporation to settle and pay remuneration for the professional services rendered by him. The Corporation resisted the proceedings on several grounds, including the one that the High Court in exercise of its jurisdiction under Art. 226 should decline to go into such a matter. The learned single Judge of the High Court was persuaded to this view and dismissed the writ petition. But in appeal the learned judges of the Division Bench, however, thought that there should be no impediment to relief being confined to what appeared to them to be undisputed parts of the claim. The Division Bench relied upon the figures furnished by the Corporation itself and came to the conclusion that, at all events, even if all the deductions claimed by the Corporation