Judges : GANGADHARA MENON
Anthonimuthu Nadar - Appellant
Versus
Oalayan Nadar - Respondent
Case No : C. R. P. No. 346, 347, 348 of 1952
Decided On : 08/13/1952
Advocates Appeared :
S. Narayanan Potti; For Petitioner E. P. Varghese; For Counter-petitioner
Order XLIII, Rule 1 (r) - Appealability of Orders of Injunction - The court held that orders of injunction passed under rule 1 or 2 of Order 39, whether passed with or without notice, are appealable.
Fact of the Case:
The counter-petitioners filed suits for permanent injunction to restrain the defendants from entering the plaint schedule properties. Ex parte orders of interim injunction were passed by the court.
Finding of the Court:
The court found that the lower appellate court was wrong in thinking that the appeals were not competent before that court and in returning the appeals for presentation to the higher court. The orders of the lower court were set aside, and the lower appellate court was directed to readmit the appeals and dispose of them in accordance with law.
Issues: The issue was the appealability of orders of injunction passed under rule 1 or 2 of Order 39.
Ratio Decidendi: The court interpreted Order XLIII, Rule 1 (r) and held that orders of injunction passed under rule 1 or 2 of Order 39, whether passed with or without notice, are appealable.
Final Decision: The orders of the lower court were set aside, and the lower appellate court was directed to readmit the appeals and dispose of them in accordance with law.
1. These revision petitions arise out of the orders passed by the lower appellate court in C.M.A. Nos. 77, 78 and 79 of 1952. The facts that gave rise to the above appeals are these. The counter-petitioners in these C.R.Ps. filed suits in O.S. 173,175 and 177 of 1952 in the Munsiff's Court of Padmanabhapuram for permanent injunction to restrain the defendants from entering the plaint schedule properties. Along with the plaints, applications were filed for interim injunction to restrain the defendants from entering possession of the plaint properties and the court passed exparte orders of interim injunction and also directed issue of notice. From the orders issuing interim injunction the defendants filed the above C. M. Appeals to the District Court. That court passed orders returning the appeals for presentation before this court. The learned judge does not say for what reason he has returned the appeals for presentation to this court. The learned advocate states that it was because the learned judge was of the view that the orders are not appealable. I do not think that the view taken by the learned judge is correct. Order XLIII, Rule 1 (r) provides that an order under rule 1, rule 2, rule 4 or 10 of Order 39 is appealable. Orders of injunction passed under rule 1 or 2 of Order 39 whether passed with or without notice are appealable under the above provision (Vide A.I.R. 1933 Lah. 282). This court has taken the same view in the order in C.R.P. 974 of 1951. The learned judge is therefore wrong in thinking that the appeals are riot competent before that court and in returning the appeals for presentation to this court. The orders of the learned judge on the above C.M. Appeals are therefore set aside. The lower appellate court will readmit the appeals to its file and dispose of them in accordance with law.
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