Mohan Breweries and Distilleries Limited v. M/S. Empee Distilleries Ltd.
Case brief
What is this about?
Madras High Court order disposing of application A No. 4636 of 2024 in suit C.S.No.28 of 2017 (Mohan Breweries and Distilleries Ltd v. Empee Distilleries Ltd). Keywords: eschewal of evidence of PW-1; witness left office after examination-in-chief; documents Exs.P1 to P9 marked on 04.10.2018; fresh witness to be examined as PW-2; proof affidavit in same terms as PW-1; affirmation of previously marked documents; Judges Summons; substitution of defendant by order dated 24.08.2023 in A.No.4310 of 2023; counsel G.Krishnakumar and Avinash Krishnan Ravi; Judge C.V. Karthikeyan; decided 02-07-2025.
What did the court decide?
Application disposed of with directions: the plaintiff's further witness is to be examined as PW-2 (not as PW-1); he may file his proof affidavit in the same terms as PW-1 and additionally affirm documents Exs.P1 to P9 and his knowledge thereof; the prayer to eschew PW-1's evidence was not granted as prayed.