The court affirmed the authority to add parties in a representative suit and emphasized the entitlement of any member of the class to bring themselves on the record as an actual party.

1. This suit was instituted under Section 14 of the Religious Endowments Act by 3 persons acting in a representative capacity. The decree obtained in the High Court on appeal was for the recovery of a certain sum of money as damages on behalf of the temple. Two out of the three plaintiffs are still alive and there has been no devolution of their interest upon the respondents. The District Judges order does not purport to be one made under Order 22, Rule 10 and it is therefore not necessary for us to consider the applicability The District Judge has ordered the respondents to be brought on the record as decree holders because they represent the temple in their capacity as trustees and because it is in the interests of the trust that the decree should be executed, the original decree holders having neglected to enforce it for over five years.

2. It may be unusual to bring fresh plaintiffs on the record after a decree has been passed, but there is authority for doing so under Order 1, Rule 10 in Vekatchand Lakshmi Chand v. Advocate General (1912) 24 M.L.J. 192 and in Lingammal v. Venkatammal (1910) I.L.R. 33 M. 4.83 : 20 M.L.J. 546 although it might be improper and inconvenient in particular cases to add defendants after decree and to allow proceedings to be taken against them in execution (See Goodall v. Mus-soorie Bank, Ltd. (1905) I.L.R. 28 Mad. 319). On the contrary it was held in Jotindra Mohan Tagore v. Bejoy Chand Mahatap I.L.R. 32 Cal. 483 that the power of the Court to add parties depends on whether the questions arising in the case are still sub judice. That maybe sound principle in suits where no other interests are involved but those of the individual plaintiffs and defendants.

3. In a representative suit however like the present, as observed in Krishnamachariar v. Chinnammal (1912) 24 M.L.J. 192 all the members of the class are in effect parties to the suit and any of them is entitled to bring himself on the record as an actual party see also Srinivasa Aiyangar v. Arayair Srinivasa Aiyangar (1910) I.L.R. 33 M. 483 : 20 M.L.J. 546.

4. Order 1, Rule 8 expressly permits any person on whose behalf a representative suit is instituted to apply to the Court to be brought on the record, and the words of this rule are not limited, as they are by Order 1, Rule 10 by the purpose being expressed as that of adjudication on the questions arising in the suit. In Prayag Doss Ji Varu Mahant v. Tirumala Sri Rangacharlavaru (1905) I.L.R. 28 Mad. 319 which was a scheme suit, it was held that persons interested might enforce in execution the directions in the Scheme.

5. The principle involved is the same here, and we therefore consider that the District Judge acted properly in bringing the respondents on the record.

6. The appeal is dismissed with costs.