NAINAR SUNDARAM
P. Moorthy – Appellant
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A. R. Kothandaraman – Respondent
ORDER :- The defendant in suit No. 401 of 1974 on the file of the III Judge, Court of Small Causes, Madras is the petitioner in this revision. The respondent is the plaintiff in that suit. The plaintiff laid the suit for recovery of the amounts due under a promissory note dated 11-1-1971. Several contentions were raised by the defendant and the main among them centered around the question as to whether the document upon which the plaintiff laid the suit is properly stamped within the meaning of the provisions of the Stamp Act and the rules framed thereunder so that it can be counted and acted' upon as a promissory note. The document is written up on a stamp paper of the value of Rs. 1.50. The III Judge, Court of Small Causes, Madras considered the questions raised in the case and found that the writing up of the promissory note in a stamp paper of the value of Rs. 1-50 would not demolish the character of the document being a promissory note and would not make it a document not duly stamped within the meaning of the provisions of the Stamp Act and the rules framed thereunder. He found the other points also against the defendant and the suit of the plaintiff was decreed as p
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