1956 Supreme(Mad) 221
P.V.RAJAMANNAR, PANCHAPAKESA AYYAR
Ramanadhan Chettiar – Appellant
Versus
The State of Madras represented by the Collector of Ramnad – Respondent
Advocates:
V. Vedantachari and Alladi Kuppuswami, for Appellant.
The Special Government Pleader (V.V. Raghavan), V. Venkataraman and K.V. Sankaran, for Respondents.
Rajamannar, C.J.- These two appeals are against the Judgment of Rajagopalan, J., disposing of two petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, and raise the same point, namely, whether the grant to the appellant’s predecessor was of a whole village. There was also another question whether the grant was of both the melwaram and kudiwaram. That question, however, is covered by a finding of fact that the grant consisted only of the melwaram. All the three members of the Estates Abolition Tribunal held that the grant was of a whole village. The Appellant sought in the above two petitions to have the Order of the Tribunal quashed and also to have the notification issued by the Government under the Rent Reduction Act in respect of the same village also quashed. Rajagopalan, J., held that it could not be said that there was no evidence before the Tribunal on which it could come to the conclusion that it came to, namely, that the grant was of a whole village, and that therefore there was no ground on which the order could be quashed.
Mr. V. Vedantachari, learned counsel for the appellant, contended that the order of the Tribunal was vitiated by an error apparent on its face, na
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