SRINIVASAN
Thayammal – Appellant
Versus
K. Subramaniam – Respondent
This civil revision petition arises out of an eviction petition filed on two grounds, viz., wilful default in payment of rent and bona fide requirement for demolition and reconstruction. Both the authorities below have accepted the evidence let in by the landlord and held that he has made out both the grounds of eviction with the result an order of eviction has been passed.
2. Learned counsel for the tenant-revision petitioner contends that there is no question of default being wilful as the tenant had been paying her previous landlord from whom the present landlord had purchased the property in 1978 the rent in instalments once in three or six months. The tenant has produced Exs.B. 1 to B.4, which are receipts issued by the prior landlord on 15-9-1976, 21-11-1976, 20-1-1977 and 15-4-1978. On those occasions, rents were paid for several months together. It is also seen from Ex.B.7 that the rent was sent to the present landlord for ten months together by one money order. It is the contention of learned counsel for the petitioner that the documentary evidence produced by the tenant proves that she was in the habit of paying the rents once in two months and that it was an i
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