that the suit should have been valued for the purposes of jurisdiction with reference to the decretal amount. The same view was taken earlier in S. Zajar Ahmad v. Abdul Khaliq — 1949 PLD 8

Citation: 1949 PLD 8

Court: Sindh High Court

Year: 1969

Decision Date: 1969-11-07

Parties: Chowdhry MUHAMMAD IQBAL vs Mst. AHMED JAHAN BEGUM

Headnotes

and Ghulam Qadir v. Bulaqi Mal & Sons (PLD 1949 Lah.

Judgment Text

Court Name: Sindh High Court Judge(s): Sardar Muhammad Iqbal Title: Chowdhry MUHAMMAD IQBAL vs Mst. AHMED JAHAN BEGUM Case No.: Civil Revision No. 440 of 1969 Date of Judgment:1969-11-07 Reported As: PLD 1970 Karachi 548 Result: Q. JUDGMENT JUDGMENT The respondent-plaintiff instituted a suit for dissolution of partnership and rendition of accounts. It was averred in the plaint that the parties entered into a partnership arrangement on the 28th of July 1966, the respondent paid a sum of Rs. 1,00,000.00 and the petitioner's contribution was Rs. 28,000.00. The terms of the partnership were incorporated in the deed and according to that the petitioner was the accounting party. The petitioner---defendant did not render the accounts for the year ending the 30th of June 1967 and the respondent, therefore, appointed one Muhammad Aslam as her Attorney to take accounts from the petitioner. On the failure of her attorney to have the accounts rendered by the petitioner and on further information laid by the said attorney that he did not find the stocks of business except 100 to 125 empty drums on the place of business, the respondent instituted the suit. The suit was valued for the purposes of dis--solution of partnership at Rs. 200.00 and for the purposes of rendi--petition of accounts at Rs. 10,000.00. The defendant objected to the value of the suit for the purposes of jurisdiction and pleaded that in view of the averments of the plaintiff in paragraph 5 of the plaint, viz.. . . The…

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