Judgement

Law Rep. 50 Ind. App. 301 ( 1922- 1923) Bommadevara Naganna Naidu V. Ravi Venkatappayya

105

Consolidated Appeal (No. 105 of 1921) from a judgment and several decrees of the High Court (March 7, 1919) reversing decrees of the District Judge of Kistna.

The consolidated appeal arose out of two sets of suits. One set consisted of suits brought by the several respondents in 1916 against their landlords, the appellants, to recover the amount by which rent which they had paid in respect of faslis 1316 to 1322 under decrees in suits under s. 77 of Mad. Act I. of 1908 exceeded rent at the rate which in former suits had been decreed by the Revenue Court and the District Judge. The decree of the District Judge had been reversed in 1908, and rent at the rate claimed by the appellants decreed, but in 1914 the Privy Council (see L. R. 41 I. A. 258) had set aside the decree of the High Court and restored that of the District Judge. The second set consisted of suits by the appellants to recover rent in respect of fasli 1323.

The facts appear more fully from the judgment of the Judicial Committee.

The first set of suits was tried by the Subordinate Judge of Bezwada, the second by the Depu