Judgement

Appeal (No. 86 of 1931) from a decree of the High Court in its appellate jurisdiction (October 2, 1930) reversing an order of the Court in its original jurisdiction (April 23, 1929).

The question for determination in the appeal was whether under an adjudication in insolvency by the District Court at Secunderabad on September 15, 1928, there vested in the respondent, as receiver, the benefit of a decree obtained by the insolvents in the Madras High Court freed from an attachment previously made by that High Court upon the application of the appellants father Lakshminarayana, since deceased and represented by the appellant.

The facts are stated in the judgment of the Judicial Committee.

Secunderabad was fixed for a British Cantonment pursuant to art. 4 of a treaty of 1798 between the Nizam and the East India Company. Civil Jurisdiction is exercised in the Administerial Areas of the Hyderabad State, which include the Cantonment of Secunderabad, under an order of the Governor-General in Council, made on December 21, 1925, under the Indian (Foreign Jurisdiction) Order in Council, 1902; the Order of 1925 superseded earlier Orders. In 1913 an Order similarly made applied the Pro