Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 44 · Decided 1 February 2000
Union of India v. E.I.D. Parry (India) LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 44 · [2000] 1 S.C.R. 537
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1763/1989
- Decided
- 1 February 2000
- Bench
- S. SAGHIR AHMAD, D.P. WADHWA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 9, 96
Headnote
Code of Civil Procedure 1908, ss. 9 and 96-Railways Act 1890 r/w. Goods Tariff Rules, Part IA-Respondent's suit against Appellant for recovery of demurrage charged by railways for failure to unload wagons in time decreed A B by trial court-High Court in appeal maintaining decree but striking down that the rules were ultra vires, High Court could not decide that question-Practice and Procedure. The Respondent's suit for recovery of a sum of Rs. 2,333.61 charged as demurrage by the Railway Administration on account of failure to un- D load m1gons within the free time, was decreed by tht:
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