Supreme Court of India

Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. v. Machado Brothers and Ors.

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Bench N. Santosh Hegde and B.P. Singh JJ.
Decided 25 March 2004

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that continuation of C a suit which has become infructuous by disappearance of the cause of action would amount to an abuse of the process of the court and interest of justice requires such suit should be disposed of as having become infructuous.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Civil Procedure Code-Section 151-Application under-Maintainability of-Earlier suit filed by party rendered infructuous by subsequent events-Application under Section 151 for dismissal of earlier suit as infructuous-Held, maintainable. Civil Procedure Code-Order 39 Rule 1 & 2-Interlocutory order-Continuance of-Suit filed by the plaintiff became infructuous-Application to dismiss the suit as infructuous dismissed on the ground that it would vacate the interim relief granted in favour of the plaintiff-Held, an infructuous suit cannot be continued to keep the interlocutory order alive-Civil Procedure Code-Section 151.

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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