IN THE HIGH COURT OF MARAS
Oldfield, Krishnan
Abdul Kasim
Versus
Thambusami Pillai And Ors.
Decided On : 15 September, 1916
Appeal - Small Cause suit - Jurisdiction under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure
Fact of the Case:
The second defendant was a party to the Small Cause suit in which the decree under execution was passed. The lower Courts judgments were given, with the District Munsifs allowing and the Subordinate Judges dismissing his claim to the attached property.
Finding of the Court:
The appeal to the Court does not lie with reference to Section 102 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The second appeal (Appeal against Appellate Order) must be dismissed. The conditions postulated by Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure for filing a revision petition were fulfilled, and the civil revision petition was dismissed with costs.
Issues: The first question was whether the appeal to the Court lies. The second issue was whether the conditions postulated by Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure for filing a revision petition were fulfilled.
Ratio Decidendi: The Court held that the second defendant did not cease to be a party to the suit, and the subsequent proceedings between him and the plaintiff were under Section 47, making the order appealable. The Court also found that the lower Appellate Court did not act without jurisdiction in hearing the appeal, and therefore, there was no ground for interfering with the Subordinate Judges order in revision.
Final Decision: The second appeal was dismissed, and the civil revision petition was also dismissed with costs.
1. The second defendant was a party to the Small Cause suit in which the decree under execution was passed; and the lower Courts judgments were given, the District Munsifs allowing and the Subordinate Judges dismissing his claim to the attached property.
2. The first question is whether this appeal to this Court lies. We must hold that it does not with reference to Section 102 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Vide Aithala v. Subbana 12 M. 116 : 4 Ind. Dec. (N.S.) 430. The second appeal (Appeal against Appellate Order), therefore, must be dismissed.
3. Next he has also filed a revision petition and we have to consider whether the conditions postulated by Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure are fulfilled. We have been pressed only by one argument, which calls for notice, that the second defendant was not a party throughout the suit in which the decree under execution was passed and that, therefore, the enquiry into his claim was not held under Section 47 and no appeal lay. If the lower Appellate Court heard an appeal which did not lie, it would no doubt have acted with, out Jurisdiction and interference under Section 115 would be justified. We, however, are not satisfied that the second defendant was not a party throughout. The second defendant, as the decree states, was exonerated, by the plaintiff. But there is nothing before us to show that this exoneration resulted in anything except the dismissal of the suit against him of that there was any such removal of his name from the suit as appears to have taken place in Gadicherla China Seetayya v. Gadicherla Seetayya 21 M. 45 : 7 Ind. Dec. (N.S.) 388. Vide also Ramaswa ni Sastrulu v. Kameswaramma 23 M. 361 : 10 M. L.J. 126 : 8 Ind. Dec, (N.S.) 653. In these circumstances the 2nd defendant did not cease to be a party to the suit. The subsequent proceedings between him and the plaintiff were, therefore, under Section 47 and the order in them was appeal able. There is, therefore, no ground for interfering with the Subordinate Judges order in revision. The civil revision petition is, therefore, dismissed with costs.
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