S. VELU PILLAI, J. :- These civil revision petitions which have been referred to a Division Bench, and others which are posted before us, have arisen out of orders passed by District Judges under S. 16 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, settling the compensation payable under S. 10 proviso (d) of that Act, for damage caused to owners of immovable properties, in taking electric supply lines across their properties, in exercise of the powers conferred by S. 51 of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910, or by S. 42 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948.

The Kerala State Electricity Board, to be referred to as the Board, which was constituted on April, 1957, and in whom, the liability to pay compensation is now vested, was not a party to some of these civil revision petitions. At the time they were referred, Shri K.V. Suryanarayana Iyer, appearing for the Board agreed, that it may be impleaded as a party, and accordingly the referring order itself directed its impleadment. At the hearing of these and the other civil revision petitions now before us, Shri K.V. Suryanarayana Iyer, appeared for the Board and we hereby order, that the Board be recorded as a party respondent in all the ci