Supreme Court of India

Badat and Co. v. East India Trading Co.

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Reported as [1964] 4 S.C.R. 19
Bench K. Subba Rao J.
Decided 10 May 1963

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What the Court ordered

We hold that though the High Court of Bombay ·has jurisdiction to enforce a final award made in a foreign country in pursuance of a submission made within the limits of its original jurisdiction, the awards in question being not final, cannot furnish a valid cause of action for the suit.

Judgment, page 50

From the headnote

Foreign Award and /udgment-Suit filed in Romhay High Court-Jurisdiction of Court to entertain the suit based on such documents. The respondent company, which was incorporated in New York and carried on business in spices, brought a suit in the original side of the Bombay High Court against the appellant for recovery of a sum of Rs. 92,884-4-10 on the basis of a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of New York affirming two awards obtained by it and also on the awards in the alternative. !963 Nihal Singh and Others v. State of Punjab Raghubar Dayal /. 1963 May, HJ 1963 Badat and Company

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