Supreme Court of India

Shiva Jute Baling Limited v. Hindley and Company Limited

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Reported as [1960] 1 S.C.R. 569
Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha J.
Decided 21 August 1959

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Arbitration-Contract--Award passed pending legal proceedings challenging the existence and validity of contract-Validity-Breach of contract-Contract providing for penalty as liquidated damages­ Award granting maximum-Legality--Indian Contract Act, r872 (9 of r872), ss. 73, 74-Arbitration (Protocol and Convention Act, I937 (6 of r937) s. 7(e)-Arbitration Act, r940 (IO of I940), SS. 33, 35· The appellant company, incorporated in India, entered into a contract on June 18, 1945, for the supply of five hundred bales of jute, with the respondent company which was incorporated in England and which

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