2009 Supreme(Mad) 4818
High Court of Judicature at Madras
THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M. VENUGOPAL
Sakthivel
Versus
Paianisamy
C.R.P.(N.P.D) No.3533 of 2009 & M.P.No.1 of 2009
Decided On : 12-11-2009
For the Petitioner:T. Bhuvaneswar, Advocate.
For the Respondent:N. Manokaran, Advocate.
The right accrued to the parties in a given case cannot be displaced by means of a request for reissuance of commission warrant.
Headnote:
Civil Procedure Code - Appointment of Advocate Commissioner - Order 26 Rule 9 - [Order 26 Rule 9] - The court dismissed the application for reissuance of commission warrant, stating that it was projected to protract the legal proceedings and that the relief prayed for in the current application and the earlier one were materially different. The court held that the right accrued to the parties cannot be displaced by means of a request for reissuance of commission warrant. The Civil Revision Petition was dismissed, and the trial Court's order was confirmed.
Fact of the Case:
The petitioner filed a civil revision petition against the order dismissing the application for the appointment of an Advocate Commissioner to inspect the suit property and submit an additional report along with a plan.
Finding of the Court:
The court found that the application for reissuance of commission warrant was projected to protract the legal proceedings and that the relief prayed for in the current application and the earlier one were materially different. The court concluded that the civil revision petition was devoid of merits and dismissed it.
Issues: The issues revolved around the dismissal of the application for reissuance of commission warrant and the timing of the application in relation to the stage of the suit proceedings.
Ratio Decidendi: The court held that the right accrued to the parties cannot be displaced by means of a request for reissuance of commission warrant. It emphasized the importance of disposing of the suit based on the available evidence and concluded that the civil revision petition lacked merit.
Final Decision: The Civil Revision Petition was dismissed, and the trial Court's order was confirmed. The parties were directed to bear their own costs, and the trial Court was directed to hear the plaintiff's side and enter judgment within a specified period.
The petitioner/plaintiff has filed this civil revision petition as against the order dated 14.07.2009 in I.A.No.455 of 2009 in O.S.No.309 of 2007 passed by the Learned District Munsif, Tiruchencode in dismissing the application filed by the revision petitioner under Order 26, Rule 9 of Civil Procedure Code, praying for an appointment of an Advocate Commissioner to inspect the suit property and submit his additional report along with plan.
2. The trial Court while passing orders in I.A.No.455 of 2009 has inter alia opined that earlier the Advocate Commissioner has been appointed for which no objection has been filed and assigning the same reasons praying for reissuance of commission warrant are not based on bonafide reasons and also that it has been projected to protract the legal proceedings and resultantly, dismissed the application without costs.
3. According to the learned counsel for the revision petitioner/ plaintiff, the trial Court has committed an error in dismissing the I.A.No.455 of 2009 filed by the petitioner praying for reissuance of commission warrant and the said order is against law, weight of evidence and materially irregular one which is liable to be set aside by this Court sitting in revision and moreover, the trial Court without applying its mind the Court has observed that the petitioner has not filed his objections to Commissioners report and plan filed in I.A.No.971 of 2007 and added further, the trial Court has commenced the trial about a year ago but the application for warrant has been projected belatedly and moreover, the trial Court has not borne in mind of a simple fact that the present I.A.No.455 of 2009 has been filed for measuring the revision petitioner and the earlier I.A.No.971 of 2007 has only been filed to note down the suit Cart Track and in short, the relief prayed for in I.A.No.971 of 2007 and I.A.No455 of 2009 are materially a different one, but unfortunately, these aspects of the matter have not been appreciated by the trial Court in a proper perspective, and therefore, prays for allowing the civil revision petition in the interest of justice.
4. Per Contra, the learned counsel for the respondent/defendant contends that the revision petitioner/plaintiff has earlier projected I.A.No.971 of 2007 praying for the appointment of an Advocate Commissioner to note down the suit Cart Track and the revision petitioner/plaintiff has not filed any objection to the commissioners report and later the revision petitioner has projected the present I.A.No.455 of 2009 when the evidence of the parties have been complete in the suit proceedings and when the suit has been posted for arguments on 18.04.2009, and on 18.04.2009 the respondent/defendant has been heard and the matter has been posted for hearing the respondent/defendant on 21.04.2009 and on 21.04.2009 when the main suit has been posted for arguments, at that time the revision petitioner/plaintiff has filed I.A.No.455 of 2009 and the matter has been further posted to 24.09.2009 for hearing of the arguments of the revision petitioner/plaintiff, and that the trial Court is rightly dismissed the said application for the reasons assigned thereto in the order and at this stage this Court may not interfere with the order passed by the trial Court in I.A.No.455 of 2009 and prays for the dismissal of the civil revision petition.
5. This Court has heard the arguments of learned counsel appearing for the parties and noticed their contentions.
6. Expatiating his arguments that an Advocate Commissioner can be appointed even at a belated stage and when the ultimate goal and aim of the Court of Law is to do complete justice to the parties, the procedural requirements are only hand made of justice and there is no embargo in law to project an application even at a time when the main suit has been posted for arguments, he cites the decision of this Court A. Palaniappan v. K. Nallasamy and Others 2008 (3) CTC 602 wherein it is inter alia held that "