Practice and procedure—Default judgment—Application to set aside—Judgment
obtained in default of appearance—Application to set aside on ground that writ not
indorsed by serving bailiff—Evidence that defendant served with writ—Rationale of
Order 9, r. 17—Whether non-compliance with order mere irregularity or fatal to whole
proceedings—High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 1954 (L.N. 140A), Orders 9, rr. 17,
18 (1) and 70.