Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 172 · Decided 6 August 1991
Patel Roadways Limited, Bombay v. Prasad Trading Company
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 172 · [1991] 3 S.C.R. 391
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3050/1991
- Decided
- 6 August 1991
- Bench
- S. RANGANATHAN, N.D. OJHA, M. FATHIMA BEEVI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 20, 115
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 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 godown at Delhi the same got destroyed and damaged in a
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