Agreement to sell -- Validity - Earnest money of Rs.3,90,000 was allegedly paid by plaintiff to defendant in the presence of typist - However, said typist was never produced by plaintiff to prove authenticity or genuineness of agreement to sell - Out of two attesting witness, one deposed on oath in favour of defendant - Agreement to sell is doubtful - Suit rightly..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 21 -- Territorial jurisdiction - Objection as to - Issue of territorial jurisdiction of Court was not raised at the earliest possible opportunity - Objection filed at the stage when suit was posted for evidence of plaintiff - No case that non-consideration of issue of territorial jurisdiction would result in failure of jurisdiction as..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 26, Rule 9 -- Appointment of Local Commissioner - Suit for declaration of title - Defendant admitted in his written statement about existence of structure, stairs over galli in between the house of plaintiff and defendant - He squarely supports case of plaintiff - Order rejecting application is proper...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 13, Rule 10(1) -- Call of records of any suit or proceedings from other Courts - Civil Court is not barred from calling for and inspecting evidence tendered in a criminal proceeding - However, admissibility and relevance of the same is subject to the document being proved as per the provisions of Evidence Act...........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Interim injunction - Plaintiffs have been in permissive possession of at least one shop since 2012 and were also found in possession by Local Commissioner - Simply because plaintiffs have filed suit on the basis of an oral agreement of sale, prima facie assessment of merit of such claim of plaintiffs could not have..........
Court Fees Act, 1870, Section 7(iv) -- Court fee - Agricultural land in State of Haryana - Court fee is payable on the basis of 10 times of revenue payable and not on the value of property or sale deed of suit property...........
Transfer of Property Act, 1882, Section 63(c) -- Redemption of mortgage - Improvements made by mortgagee - Evidence in the form of receipt about amounts spent by mortgagee produced on record - However, no evidence produced by mortgagee to prove the said receipt - Amount spent on development of suit property is stated to be Rs.75,000 - For want of specific evidence, both..........
Adverse possession -- Mere wrong possession of defendant for a period more than 12 years without intention to possess the suit land adversely to the title of plaintiff and too little knowledge cannot result an acquisition of title by defendant to encroached suit land...........
Co-owners -- Eviction suit - One of co-owners can file a suit for eviction of a tenant in the property generally owned by co-owners on the basis of doctrine of agency and that consent of other co-owners is assumed as taken unless it is shown that other co-owners were not agreeable to evict tenant...........
Limitation Act, 1963, Article 65 -- Limitation - Suit for recovery of possession - Defendant contended that suit for possession of property should be filed within 12 years - However, there is no plea of adverse possession at all raised by defendant - It is incumbent on the part of defendant to plead when possession started becoming adverse - On the contrary defendant..........
