Supreme Court of India
Badat and Co. v. East India Trading Co.
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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
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Thangam and Another v. Navamani Ammal
- 2017 Jaspal Kaur Cheema and Anr. v. M/s Industrial Trade Links and Ors. Etc.
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