Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Temporary injunction - Plaintiffs though assert themselves to be owners in possession of suit property for last 37 years, but however, not even a single document has come on record to substantiate the plea of ownership or possession - In fact, plaintiffs now admit possession of defendants over suit property - Application..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 21, Rule 89 -- Absence of specific prayer in application U.O.21.R.89 CPC to set aside sale - True intention and substance of petition/application has to be gathered, before proceeding to non suit an applicant on such a hyper technicality - Moreover it is correctly held by trial Court that application being filed U.O.21.R.89 CPC is..........
Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Bona fide purchaser - Execution of GPA by defendant no.1 in favour of defendant no.2 is not denied by defendant no.1 - Defendant no.2 executed sale deed in favour of defendant no.3 on basis of said GPA - Defendant no.1 categorically stated in his written statement that agreement in favour of plaintiff is forged and fabricated -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Non-disclosure of cause of action - Suit for permanent injunction - Plaintiffs have claimed themselves to be co-owner and to be in possession of a portion of property with a further assertion that defendants are trying to dispossess them of same illegally - Plaint thus, shows a cause of action as claimed..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 8, Rule 1 -- Written statement - Commercial suit - Written statement not filed within prescribed period - Written statement filed after ex parte order was set aside - Application filed by plaintiff to strike off defence decided subsequently - There is no provision that written statement, if already filed, must be struck off from the record..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 37, Rule 3(5) -- Recovery suit - Leave to defend granted - Challenge as to - It is for trial Court to exercise its discretion to ascertain as to whether or not, evidence is required to be adduced qua money claims to be adjudicated by way of trial - No irregularity in impugned order and thus, no interference warranted in impugned order of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 7, Rule 11 -- Rejection of plaint - Dismissal of earlier suit in default and not on merits - It cannot be said that instant suit is barred U.O.23.R.4 or O.2.R.2 CPC...........
Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 52 -- Transfer pendente lite - Suit for Specific performance - Mortgage of property during pendency of suit - Appellants derived their right from alleged mortgage which was entered into during pendency of suit - Both the Courts thus, rightly found that alleged mortgage in favour of predecessor in interest of appellants is governed by..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151 -- Additional evidence - Suit for possession by way of specific performance and permanent injunction - Documents proposed to be tendered in evidence include certified copies of jamabandies - These jamabandies can certainly be tendered being per se admissible - However, with regard to notarized photocopy of sale deed, these..........
Court Fees Act, 1870, Section 7 -- Ad valorem Court fee - Suit for declaration that sale deed is null and void - Plaintiff companies claim that they are not executor of sale deed in question - Even though, it is disputed question of fact, but same would not in any manner exempt plaintiffs from legal requirement to pay ad valorem Court fee - Plaintiffs rightly directed to..........