JUDGMENT - 1. In this second appeal by the defendants Nos. 2 to 4 against two concurrent decisions granting a specific performance of an agreement to sell the house to the plaintiff, the only question raised before me was whether a monetary compensation for breach of agreement would have been a more appropriate relief than a decree for Specific performance.

2. On 26-12-1952, the defendant No. 1, who owned the house in suit, entered into an agreement with the plaintiff to sell that house to the plaintiff for a consideration of Rs. 2000/-. The sale deed was to be executed within two years. That agreement was registered and Rs. 1000/- out of the agreed price of Rs. 2000/- were paid as earnest money before the Sub-Registrar, the balance of Rs. 100/- being payable at the time of the registration of the sale deed, In the meantime, a creditor of the defendant No. 1 attached the suit house in execution of a decree in Civil Suit No. 46-B of 1946 and the plaintiff got that house released from attachment on 18-11-1953 by depositing the decretal amount of Rs. 186-10-0 for and on behalf of the judgment-debtor. It was agreed between the plaintiff and the defendant No. 1 that Rs. 100- out of this

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