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Issues: Whether the plaintiff was entitled to exclude the time spent in earlier proceedings under Section 14 of the Limitation Act, 1908 so as to save limitation for the claim for arrears of exemption fee for the period March 1951 to March 1957.
Analysis: Section 14 applies only where the earlier civil proceeding was prosecuted with due diligence and good faith, was founded on the same cause of action, and failed because the court was unable to entertain it for defect of jurisdiction or a cause of a like nature. The earlier suit had been entertained and decided on merits, and the appellate court had merely reversed the grant of a mortgage decree while still deciding the matter substantively. Such a disposal could not be equated with inability to entertain the proceeding. The cause of action in the present suit also differed from the earlier suit, which covered a different period of arrears.
Conclusion: The plaintiff was not entitled to exclusion of time under Section 14 of the Limitation Act, 1908 for the period spent in the earlier suit and appeal, and the claim for arrears from March 1951 to March 1957 was barred by limitation.
Final Conclusion: Relief was confined to the undisputed arrears for March 1957 to March 1959, while the limitation plea succeeded in respect of the earlier period.
Ratio Decidendi: Section 14 of the Limitation Act, 1908 is attracted only when the earlier proceeding could not be entertained because of defect of jurisdiction or a cause of a like nature and was not one that was decided on merits.
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