Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 208 · Decided 2 September 1976
Union of India v. D. M. Revri & CO.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 208 · [1977] 1 S.C.R. 483
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 135/1972
- Decided
- 2 September 1976
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 80; Constitution Article 77; Arbitration Act
Headnote
Arbitration Act, 1940--Contract between lay parties not to be thwarted by narrow pedantic and legalistic interprf?tation-Intendment of parties regardinfi validity of arbitrator's appointment. whether material. A B The respondent partnership firm, entered into contract with the· appellant was made in C clause ( 17) of the contract, and the arbitrator was to be_ nominated by the Secretary in the Ministry of Food & Agriculture. In the present dispute, before an arbitrator was nominated, the Ministry of Food & Agriculture was bifurcated into two separa.te Ministries and
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