BRIJ MOHAN LALL
Ishaq – Appellant
Versus
Abdul Majeed – Respondent
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 o
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