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1996 Supreme(SC) 89

K.RAMASWAMY, G.B.PATTANAIK
Rajnibai Alias Mannubai – Appellant
Versus
Kamla Devi – Respondent


ORDER

Leave granted.

2. We have heard the counsel on both sides. This appeal by speical leave arises from the order of the single Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur Bench dated January 20, 1993 made in M.A. No. 337/91.

3. The appellant laid the suit for declaration of prescriptive title to the property from 1974 in his own right and perfected the title thereto by adverse possession. He also filed an application under Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 CPC seeking temporary injunction restraining the respondent from interdicting his possession pending the suit. The trial Court granted the injunction but on appeal it was reversed by the learned single Judge in the impugned order. The High Court has concluded that when there is no dispute as regards the incorporeal right in litigation, the declaratory suit is only a right to the property but not to the right itself; Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 CPC could be availed of only when the property, the subject matter thereof, is in danger of being wasted, damaged or otherwise being dealt with. In a simple suit for declaratory nature without any consequential relief there cannot be any dispute as regards the property because the dispute is not a










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