The main legal principle established is the duty of the court to interpret the document on which a cause of action is founded and reject the plaint if the best arguable case of the plaintiff is not supported by the document.

Sanjib Banerjee, J.

The petitioner herein is the sole defendant in a suit relating to an immovable property. The petitioner questions of a propriety of an order dated February 10, 2017 by which the petitioner's application for rejection of the plaint has been dismissed with costs.

2. The principal ground urged by the petitioner is that the plaint relating to the suit does not disclose any cause of action.

3. The petitioner is the daughter of one Purnanka Mohan Sur and his second wife, Renu Sur, both deceased. The petitioner is married and has a daughter, who also appears to be married. The opposite party No.1 herein is a son of the petitioner's father through his first marriage. The opposite party No.1 has instituted Title Suit No.192 of 2014 before the Civil Judge (Junior Division), 2nd Court at Alipore, citing a deed of settlement to claim divers reliefs which are not necessary to be set out. The claim in the suit is that the opposite party No.1 herein has, under a registered deed of settlement of December 14, 1960 executed by Purnanka Mohan Sur, a valuable right in respect of a property now numbered as 46A, Garcha Road. The immediate purpose for which the suit was filed was to arrest the attempt by the petitioner herein to transfer or alienate the suit property. The opposite party Nos. 2 and 3 were impleaded as proforma defendants in the suit. Such opposite parties are the wife and son, respectively, of a deceased uterine brother of the opposite party No.1.

4. The petitioner asserts that the alleged right claimed by the opposite party No.1 in the suit is non-existent and the same would be evident from a plain reading of the relevant deed of settlement. The petitioner maintains that under the relevant deed the suit property has absolutely vested in the petitioner and the circumstances in which the suit property could have passed on to the opposite party No.1 and his deceased brother are no longer possible. The petitioner submits that it was on the basis of a plain reading of the relevant deed that the petitioner applied under Order 7, Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 for the rejection of the plaint. The petitioner criticises the order impugned dated February 10, 2017 on the ground that the court below imagined a semblance of a cause of action where there was none.

5. It is necessary to notice the deed of settlement of December 14, 1960 and the relevant portion thereof which governs the rights of the parties herein. Under the said document, Purnanka Mohan Sur, as the settlor, created a trust of which he appointed himself the first trustee. The subject-matter of the trust was the property at 46, Garcha Road with a strip of land that the settlor purchased and amalgamated with premises No. 46, Garcha Road. There is no dispute that the original property and the strip of land subsequently acquired were later renumbered and the entirety of the property covered by the trust is now premises No. 46A, Garcha Road. The material part of the document reads as follows:

"... AND from and after the death of the Settlor and his said wife Srimati Renu Sur IN TRUST for Srimati Sumana Sur the only daughter now living of the Settlor and his said wife Srimati Renu Sur absolutely and the Trustee shall transfer the Trust Premises to her PROVIDED THAT if any other child or children is or are born to the Settlor through his said wife Srimati Renu Sur and such child or children shall be living on that date then IN TURST for all such children including the said Srimati Sumana Sur absolutely in equal shares as tenants in common and the Trustee shall transfer the Trust Premises to them PROVIDED that if the said Srimati Sumana Sur remaining the only child of the Settlor and his said wife Srimati Renu Sur shall die during the life time of the Settlor or his said wife Srimati Renu Sur then the Trustee shall stand possessed of the Trust Premises in trust for the Settlor's two sons Prosanta Kumar Sur and Susanta Kumar Sur through his first wife