Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 4 · Decided 15 January 1970
Piloo Dhunjishaw Sidhwa v. Municipal Corporation of the City of Poona
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 4 · [1970] 3 S.C.R. 415
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 19/1967
- Decided
- 15 January 1970
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, K.S. HEGDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Contract Act Section 70
Headnote
Con~ract-Formalities-Bornbay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act (59 of 1949), s. 74(2)-Contract requiring seal, and affixture of seal to be attesttZd by two me1nb.ers of Transport Committee-Members of Trans. port Committee not elecred--Contract entered into without seal-Enforce• ability. value as compensa­ tion-When allowed. The appellant was the sole selling agent of motor spare parts for the manufacturers in the State of Bombay. The respondent-Corporation was constituted under the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949. Under s. 74 of Act and the Rules
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