Curgenven, J.

1. These five Civil Revision Petitions are preferred against an order of the Subordinate Judge of Devakottah passed under Order 11, Rule 18 (1), Civil Procedure Code and allowing the respondents, who are defendants in O.S. No. 109 of 1930 on his file, inspection of the documents contained in a list attached to the plaint. The substantial questions which I have to decide are, firstly, whether the Court could pass such an order in respect of these documents and, secondly, whether it was justified in allowing inspection before the defendants had filed their written statements.

2. A plaintiffs documents are of two kinds, differentiated by Order 7, Rule 14 into (1) those which he sues upon, and (2) those which he relies upon as evidence in support of his claim. The order requires him to produce class (1) with his plaint and to enter class (2) in a list to be added or annexed to the plaint. Under Rule 15 of Order 11 a party may at any time give notice to any other party in whose pleadings or affidavits reference is made to any document to produce such document for the inspection of the party giving such notice. An attempt has been made to contend that this rule only r