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Kanhai Lal vs Madan Mohan Lal And Anr.

High Court Of Judicature at Allahabad|20 February, 1895

JUDGMENT / ORDER

JUDGMENT Knox and Aikman, JJ.
1. This is an appeal from an order passed by the Subordinate judge of Bareilly in appeal remanding a case under Section 562 of the Civil Procedure Code for trial on the merits. The claim as laid by the plaintiff was to enforce payment of money which had been borrowed from him -upon certain jewels which had been pledged with him. The prayer in the plaint, however, is not merely for recovery of money due by sale of the property pledged. There, was a further prayer for the recovery of the balance due after sale of the jewelry by proceedings against the persons of the defendants, now appellants. The claim was instituted more than three years from the date when the money had been borrowed and the jewelry pledged. The Court of First Instance held that the suit was one governed by Article 80 of the second schedule of the Limitation Act of 1877 and dismissed the suit. The Subordinate Judge was of opinion that there was no express article in the Limitation Act applicable to the suit, and therefore applied Article 120. The question before us was considered by the High Court at Calcutta in Nim Chand Baboo v. Jagabundhu Chose I.L.R. 22 Cal. 21. The learned Judges who decided that case were of opinion that, so far as the plaint might pray for a decree for the money lent against the defendant personally, it was barred under Article 57; but so far as the plaintiff sought to enforce his charge against the property pledged, the suit fell, not within Article 57, but within Article 120 of the schedule and was therefore not barred. We agree in the opinion there expressed. While, therefore, we dismissed this appeal, we so far modify the order of the Lower Appellate Court as to direct the Court of First Instance to dispose of the suit on the merits with regard to the remarks made above. The respondents will g6t their costs.
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Title

Kanhai Lal vs Madan Mohan Lal And Anr.

Court

High Court Of Judicature at Allahabad

JudgmentDate
20 February, 1895
Judges
  • Knox
  • Aikman