(1.) These appeals filed under Order 41 Rule 1(r) of Code of Civil Procedure are directed against the similar orders passed by the Court below whereby the application preferred by present appellants under Order 9 Rule 13 CPC were disallowed by the Court below.
(2.) Regard being had to the similitude of the questions involved in these cases, on the joint request of the parties, the matters were analogously heard and decided by this common order.
(3.) Shri R.P. Agrawal, learned Senior Counsel for the appellants submits that civil suit for rendition of account were instituted by respondents/plaintiff on 09.10.2001. One Shri Vinod Rai, Advocate appeared on behalf of present appellants before the Trial Court in the said civil suits on 08.07.2004 and prayed for time to file his vakalatnama and written statement. Shri Vinod Rai, for the reasons best known to him, did not appear before the Court below on 15.09.2004 and, therefore, in all the civil suits, the Court below proceeded exparte against the present appellants. On 24.12.2005, the preliminary judgment and decree was passed by the Court below.