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1953 Supreme(All) 320

HIGH COURT OF ALLAHBAD
BRIJ MOHAN LALL, J.
Ishaq
Versus
Abdul Majeed
Civil Revn. No. 1375 of 1953
Decided On : 09-12-1953

Advocates:
Lakshmi Saran, for Applicant.

Headnote:

Mis-joinder of Causes of Action - Civil Procedure Code - The plaintiff has the right to unite several causes of action against the same defendant in one suit, and the court has the power to order separate trials if convenient, but the defendant cannot claim separate trials as of right.

Fact of the Case:

The defendant raised an objection to the mis-joinder of causes of action in a pending suit, but the court overruled the plea, stating that the plaintiff has the right to combine multiple causes of action in one suit.

Finding of the Court:

The court found that the plaintiff was entitled to continue the suit in its present form as the court did not find it inconvenient to try the suit with combined causes of action.

Issues: The main issue was the defendant's objection to the mis-joinder of causes of action in the pending suit.

Ratio Decidendi: The plaintiff has the right to combine multiple causes of action in one suit, and the court has the power to order separate trials if convenient, but the defendant cannot claim separate trials as of right.

Final Decision: The court rejected the defendant's application for revision, stating that the decision of the learned Munsif was a finding on one of several issues involved in the case, and no revision can lie against such a finding.

ORDER :- This is an application in revision by a defendant.

2. A suit has been instituted by the opposite party against the applicant and is pending in the court of the learned first Additional Munsif of Allahabad. Several causes of action have been combined in that suit. There is only one plaintiff and one defendant. The applicant who, as already stated, is the defendant, raised an objection to the effect that there was a defect of mis-joinder of causes of action. The learned Munsif has overruled this plea and has rightly pointed, out that R. 3 of O. 2, Civil P.C. permits a plaintiff to unite in the same suit several causes of action against the same defendant or the same defendants jointly. Since the law has conferred on the plaintiff opposite party the right to have his several disputes with the applicant decided in one suit and since the plaintiff has chosen to combine all the causes of action in one suit, he has done nothing contrary to law. No question, of convenience or inconvenience is material under R. 3 of O. 2, Civil P.C.

3. It may, however, be conceded that, although law has given this privilege to a plaintiff, it has, at the same time, invested the court with, power to order separate trials provided it finds it convenient to try or dispose of the different causes of action in one suit. This is provided by R. 6. But this privilege of ordering the trial to be split up into two or more trials is given to court alone. The defendant cannot claim it as of right. If the court does not find it inconvenient to try the suit as brought the plaintiff is certainly entitled to continue the suit in the form in which he has filed it. In the present case, the learned Munsif has said that there is not much inconvenience in trying the suit. This means that he does not find it inconvenient to try the suit in its present form. He has refrained from ordering separate trials. Since the learned Munsif has not chosen to split up the trial, the defendant has no right to claim separate trials in respect of different causes of action. For this reason, this revision must fail.

4. There is yet another reason, viz., that the decision of the learned Munsif is after all a finding on one of several issues involved in the case. No revision can lie against a finding recorded by a court on any issue. The finding does not amount to a case decided. 5. The application must, therefore, fail. It is hereby rejected.

Application rejected.

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