Judgement

Appeal (No. 112 of 1918) from a judgment and decree of the High Court (November 14, 1916) varying a decree of the District Judge of Tanjore pronounced on appeal from the Revenue Divisional Officer of Kumbakonam.

The suit was brought in the Revenue Court under the Estates Land Act (I. of 1908, Mad.), s. 77, to recover arrears of rent of certain inam lands. The plaintiff (represented by the present respondent) was receiver in a partition suit of family property including the inam lands which were an " estate," as defined by that Act. The defendants were occupancy ryots in whom the kudiwaram interest in the land vested. The claim was for rent said to have accrued in accordance with a puttah tendered in respect of Faslis 1318, 1319, and 1320. The defendants had rejected the puttahs, and contended that a less sum, which they paid into Court, was due. The inamdar in proceedings under the Rent Recovery Act (VIII. of 1865, Mad.) had obtained decrees in respect of former years enforcing the puttahs in the form now tendered. The last of these decrees was made by the Divisional Officer in April, 1904. The material terms of the puttah appear from the judgment of their Lordships.

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