PIGGOT, GORDON
Kunja Lal Banerji – Appellant
Versus
Dinbandhu Jha – Respondent
JUDGMENT
1. We do not propose to go into this case at any length, and we think it is one which we ought to dispose of at once, nor shall we dwell u pan the details which have been referred to as to the merits or demerits of the suit which is under appeal. There were two grounds on which the application for a Rule was made, two main grounds; one was that the District Judge in his capacity as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Berhampore College was sufficiently interested in the matters arising in the appeal to mike it unsuitable, according to the established judicial etiquette and propriety, that he should dispose of the appeal. In the 14th paragraph of the petition there were set out grounds of that nature which, it was urged, rendered it not suitable for Mr. Anderson, the District Judge, to try the case. Now, the connection between Mr. Anderson's acts as member of the Board and this case is this: that there was a meeting of the Board of Trustees on November 6th, 1889, at which an opinion of the Legal Remembrancer was read advising the Board of Trustees to apply for Letters of Administration to the estate of Radha Charan Sen, and, no doubt, that advice was given, because the
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