VISWANATHA SASTRY, J.

( 1 ) THIS is an appeal against the order of Satyanarayana Raju J. dismissing an application for the issue of a writ of certiorari quashing the order of the collector and Additional District Magistrate, Kurnool dated 31-12-1953 requisitioning a house alleged to belong to the petitioner and made under sec. 4 (1) of the Requisition of Buildings (Andhra Area) Ordinance (I of 1953), the petitioner before the learned Judge, who is also the appellant before us, is Haradevi, the wife of Pamandas Sugnaram, a Banker and money-lender residing and carrying on business in Kurnool town. At the relevant date the petitioner and her husband were either the owners or the lessees of four houses in Kurnool town which have been referred to, for the sake of conveniene, as houses A, B, C and D in the judgment of the learned Judge. Houses A and g were rented buildings in which Sugnaram, the lessee, was carrying on his business. The title of the houses B and D stands in the name of Haradevi. On 14-9-1953 the Collector and the Additional Dirstrict Magistrate, Kurnool, the 2nd respondent, requested Sugnaram by a notice, to vacate house B and occupy house A for his residence and busines

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