https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186436 A corporate litigant may sue through an officer, and pleadings need not fail merely because no formal authority document is produced at the outset. Where the record shows that the corporation instituted and prosecuted the suit, paid court fee, and otherwise treated the filing as its own, the officer's act may be treated as authorised or later ratified. Such a defect in signing and verification is procedural, not jurisdictional, and should not defeat a just claim. On the facts stated, the plaint was held validly signed or duly ratified, the objection to maintainability failed, and dismissal on that technical ground was unsustainable. en-us Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:50:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186436 A corporate litigant may sue through an officer, and pleadings need not fail merely because no formal authority document is produced at the outset. Where the record shows that the corporation instituted and prosecuted the suit, paid court fee, and otherwise treated the filing as its own, the officer's act may be treated as authorised or later ratified. Such a defect in signing and verification is procedural, not jurisdictional, and should not defeat a just claim. On the facts stated, the plaint was held validly signed or duly ratified, the objection to maintainability failed, and dismissal on that technical ground was unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186436