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1926 DIGILAW 71 (MAD)

Kolluru Venkataratnam v. Pusapati Venkamma

1926-02-08

WALLACE

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JUDGMENT Wallace, J. 1. The amendment of the plaint was called for because the basis of plaintiffs right to sue had been jeopardized by a decision in another suit that a similar endorsement on a similar promissory-note was a forgery. This decision was passed after the plaint in this suit was filed and the application for amendment of the plaint was put in promptly. The amendment if allowed merely gives plaintiff another "string to her bow" in respect of her claim that the original liability of defendant under the suit nota to Nagayya has now passed into a liability to herself. Defendant does not seem to plead that he is not liable under the note, provided the suit is in time. In these circumstances the ruling in Naba Kumar Chowdhury v. Higheazany A.I.R. 1925 Cal, 419 cited by the lower Court is in point and the amendment doss not affect defendants liability to pay though there is a change in the manner in which plaintiff claims the debt. 2. In the circumstances I am not prepared to hold that the lower Court has acted without jurisdiction or has exercised its jurisdiction irregularly in allowing the amendment. 3. The petition is dismissed with costs.