In Brief
The appellant filed a suit in Indore concerning two properties—one at Indore and one at Mumbai—held by different defendants with different causes of action. Defendants 7 and 8 challenged jurisdiction, arguing the Mumbai property lay outside Indore's territorial limits. The trial court struck off the Mumbai property pleadings; the High Court upheld this. The Supreme Court held that while Section 17 of the CPC permits suits for multiple properties in different jurisdictions, it applies only when there is a single common cause of action. Here, the Indore and Mumbai properties involved entirely different transactions, parties, and causes of action, making them unsuitable for joinder. The Court affirmed the striking off and dismissed the appeal.
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