( 1 ) THIS civil revision petition is before us on its reference to a Division Bench.

( 2 ) THE necessary and material facts are, briefly, these: Respondent 1 was the plaintiff in O. S. No. 442 of 1980, on the file of the Munsiff, Udupi. Respondents 2, 3, 4 and 5 were defendants 2,1, 3 and 4 respectively therein. In that suit, the plaintiff, inter alia, sought a permanent injunction to restrtain defendants 3 and 4 from granting an "exhibition Certificate" respecting the motion picture "ganda- bherunda" on the allegations that defendant No. 1 represented to the plaintiff that he (deft~l) had acquired the exclusive right to exhibit than film I'gandabherunda" in Dharwar district by virtue of the agreement dated 15. 1. 79 executed in his favour by defendant-2 and one Vajramuni; that the plaintiff, on the strength of that representation, entered into an agreement dated 5. 9. 80 with defendant 2 whereunder defendant-1 had to deliver to the plaintiff by 15. 12. 80 prints of the said film enabling the latter to exhibit the same in Dharwar district: and that since the plaintiff, subsequently, learnt of the advertisements in newspapers that a certain m. J. M. Productions and