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1921 Supreme(All) 38

STUART
Bhudeo – Appellant
Versus
Musammat Baikunthi – Respondent


JUDGMENT

Stuart, J. - The point raised is whether the two remedies allowed to a plaintiff whose suit has bean dismissed under Order IX, Rule 2 or 3, namely, the remedy of bringing a fresh suit or applying to have the dismissal set aside, are mutually exclusive. The words of Order IX, Rule 4, are materially the same as the words of Section 99, Act XIV of 1882, upon this point. The wording is not very happy. The use of the word "or" presents many difficulties. In spite of the fast that the word "or" is used and in spite of the fast that the remedy of bringing a fresh suit is placed first and the remedy of having the order set aside is plated second, I am of opinion that the lower Appellate Court is right. I cannot read into the words of the section the meaning that when a person, in good faith believing his suit to have been wrongfully dismissed, comes into Court to have that order set aside and fails to succeed, that person insure the penalty of not being permitted to bring another suit upon the same facts. The selection of the remedy of bringing a fresh suit involves the plaintiff in the necessity of paying a fresh Court-fee and a man would naturally wish to take his chance of getti

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