1921 (6) TMI 2

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....r alleged on the part of the applicant that the institution of the suit did not come to her notice or to the notice of the persons acting for her until the decree had been passed. 2. The suit is against a firm in its firm name. The allegation of the applicant is, first of all, that the business carried on under the name or style of Bhugwandas Pursram was a business of which her husband during his....

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....that the firm had bad. 4. Now, a suit can be brought against a firm in its firm name even if it be a dissolved firm, provided only that the liability arose at a time when the firm was in existence. When it comes to the question of service, however, in such a case as. that, it is important to remember that by the rules- Order XXX, Rule 3, the only way in which such writ can be served is by serving....

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....trar or Mister, be addressed to the defendant at the plate where he is residing and sent by the Sheriff to him by registered post." It does seem to me that if that rule is going to be applied to a case where the suit is brought against a partnership firm in its firm name, it is necessary that it should be so applied as to comply, at all events, with the substance of Order XXX, Rule 3--that is....