Supreme Court of India
Patel Roadways Limited, Bombay v. Prasad Trading Company
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the courts at Bombay in these two cases did not at all have jurisdiction and consequently the agreement between the parties conferring exclusive jurisdiction on courts ai Bombay is of no avail.
Judgment, page 7
From the headnote
Civil Procedure Code, 1908: Section 20-Explanation-Suits- 1 nstitution of-Whether parties entitled to agree that only a certain court would have iurisdiction. The appellant in both the appeals carried on the business of a carrier and transported goods on hire. It had its principal office at Bombay and branch offices at various other places. The respondent in the first appeal a dealer in cardamom entrusted a consignment of cardamom to the appellant at its branch office at Bodinayakanur in Tamilnadu to be delivered at Delhi. After the goods had been transported by the appellant and kept in a
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Rakesh Kumar Verma v. Hdfc Bank Ltd.
- 2015 Indian Performing Rights Society Ltd. v. Sanjay Dalia&anr.
- 2014 Dashrath Rupsingh Rathod v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.
Of those, 3 referred to
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