Supreme Court of India

L. J. Leach and Company Ltd. v. Jardine Skinner and Co.

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Reported as [1957] 1 S.C.R. 438
Bench Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati J.
Decided 22 January 1957

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Amendment of plaint-Addition of alternative ground for claim -Necessary allegations present in plaint-Fresh suit on amended clat'm barred by limitation-Whether amendment should he allowed­ Action in trover-W hen maintainable. The appellants filed a suit for damages for conversion against the respondents on the allegations that the respondents were the agents of the appellants, that the appellants had placed orders for certain goods with the respondents, and that the respondents had actually imported ...t:he goods but refused to deliver them to the appellants. The suit was dismissed on the

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