RAVINDRA FINANCE Vs. YAANAI TOBACCO CO

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is a petition to revise the order of the learned third Additional subordinate Judge, Tiruchirapalli, dated 26-7-1977 in E.P. No. 3 of 1977 in O. S. No. 394 of 1975 on his file. Admittedly, the petitioner who was the plaintiff and decree holder, obtained a decree only against the firm. Subsequently, he filed an execution petition purporting to be under Order 21, Rules 37 and 50 of the C. P. Code, for executing the decree against the respondents 2 and 3, who, according to the petitioner, were the partners of the firm. The court below dismissed the petition holding that when the respondents 2 and 3 had not been impleaded as parties to the suit or no summons had been served on them, the executing court cannot execute the decree against them. It is to revise this order the present civil revision petition has been filed.

(2.) I am of the opinion that the order of the learned Subordinate Judge is correct. Order 21, Rule 50 in sub-rule (1) thereof, states as follows-

(3.) Thus, there is the clear difference between the partners being personally parties to the decree and they being not parties to the decree. In fact, clauses (b) and (c) of sub-rule (1) of Rule 50, Order 21, C. P. C. will clearly show that the partners should have appeared in their own name under R. 6 or Rule 7 of Order XXX C. P. C., or should have been admitted on the pleadings that they are, or have been adjudged to be, partners, or summons in the suit should have been individually served on them and they must have failed to appear. Only in such cases, the decrees can be executed against the partners. In all other cases, sub-r. (2) of Rule 50, Order 21, C.P. C. applies, which enables the court which passed the decree to grant leave. In this particular case, the respondents 2 and 3 have not appeared in their own name under Rule 6 or Rule 7 of Order XXX C. P. C. They have not been admitted on the pleadings that they were, or were adjudged to be, partners and no summons in the suit had been served on them individually. In those circumstances, neither Clause (b) nor clause (c) of sub-rule (1) of Rule 50 Order 21, C. P. C. will apply and therefore, the learned Judge was right in dismissing the application filed by the petitioner herein.