https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197527 A plaint must be construed as a whole to determine the true nature of the relief claimed, and isolated phrases cannot control its character. On that approach, the pleading here was treated as seeking partition of joint family properties by metes and bounds, not merely severance of joint family status. An amendment deleting words inserted by mistake was also permissible under Order 6 Rule 17 CPC because it corrected an inadvertent pleading error, did not introduce a new or inconsistent case, and avoided unnecessary multiplicity of proceedings. The amendment was therefore allowed and the suit remanded for retrial. en-us Mon, 23 Aug 1965 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 14:51:27 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197527 A plaint must be construed as a whole to determine the true nature of the relief claimed, and isolated phrases cannot control its character. On that approach, the pleading here was treated as seeking partition of joint family properties by metes and bounds, not merely severance of joint family status. An amendment deleting words inserted by mistake was also permissible under Order 6 Rule 17 CPC because it corrected an inadvertent pleading error, did not introduce a new or inconsistent case, and avoided unnecessary multiplicity of proceedings. The amendment was therefore allowed and the suit remanded for retrial. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 23 Aug 1965 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197527