PAUL, J. :- This appeal has been preferred against the order of Padmanabhan J. on Appn. No. 2640 of 1978 in C.S. No. 26 of 1978, refusing to revoke the leave to sue granted to the first respondent-plaintiff under clause 12 of the Letters Patent.

2. The first respondent plaintiff, M/s, Gordon Woodroffe and Co. (Madras) Pvt. Ltd., filed the suit C.S. No. 26 of 1978 on the Original Side of this Court against respondents 2 to 4 for a declaration that the termination of the plaintiff's appointment as the first defendant's agents at Madras, Kakinada and Visakhapatnam together with the plaintiff's function as the first defendant's co-ordinating agent for the first defendant's trade from India and as the first defendant's controlling agent for Cuddalore, Masulipatnam, Nagapattinam and Trivandrum is illegal, void, inoperative and not binding on the plaintiff and for a permanent injunction restraining the first defendant or their agents or servants or anybody claiming under or through them from interfering with the possession and enjoyment of the property of the plaintiff, namely, Clan Line Agency for the Ports of Madras, Kakinada and Visakhapatnam, together with the plaintiffs funct