Supreme Court of India
Indian Bank v. Maharashtra State Co-operative Marketing Federation Ltd.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the word 'trial' in section I 0, in the context of a summary suit, cannot be interpreted to mean the entire proceedings starting with institution of the suit by lodging a plaint.
Judgment, page 6
From the headnote
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 : S.10, Order XXXVJJ-Trial of Suit-Stay of-Summary suit file under Order 37-Dependent seeking stay of the suit on the ground that it has already filed a regular suit in respect of the dispute between the parties Single Judge of the High Court declining to stay the summary suit holding that concept of trial in s.10 applies only to a regular suit and not to a summary suit-Division Bench of the High Court, in appeal, held that s. 10 applies to summary suit also and the word 'trial' cannot be construed in a narrow sense but would mean entire proceedings after
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