Parties are bound by admissions made by their counsel on questions of fact, and a finding of fact in the lower court stands if not attacked in the appellate court.

Beasley, J.

1. The appellant here was the plaintiff in the District Munsifs Court and his suit there was for a declaration that the plaint scheduled property was not liable to be attached in O.S. Nos. 529 and 537 of 1919 against defendant 3 by defendants 1 and 2, as the plaintiff had purchased the property from defendant 3 for full and valuable consideration under a registered sale-deed-dated 16th August 1919. The issues raised in the District Munsifs Court were five in number, but there are only two which are of any importance Issue 1. was Whether the attachments made in O.S. Nos. 537 and 529 of 1919 are not valid?

2. And issue 2:

Whether the plaintiff is entitled to the property?

3. If I may pause here, I think I ought to point out that the issues are in the wrong. order and that the first and in fact the most important matter to be decided was whether the plaintiff was entitled to the property. The District Munsif in his judgment held that the transaction set up by the plaintiff to establish his right to the property was a sham transaction. He therefore found issue 2 against the plaintiff and he then further proceeded to find issue 1 also against the plaintiff. In the lower appellate Court issue 2 was not argued by the appellants vakil. The learned Subordinate Judge states as follows in para. 2 of his judgment:

The main points for determination in this appeal are those covered by issues i and 2. The appellants vakil has not argued before this Court the question covered by issue 2 stating that a finding in his favour on issue 1 would be quite enough for his client.

4. The position therefore was that the appellant had a finding against him on a most important point, namely, that he had no title to the property. That was a finding of fact. The vakil in the Court below did not choose to attack that finding of fact; In the lower appellate Court, the appellate Judge found issue 1 also against the appellant and upheld the decision of the District Munsif. Now, we are asked to decide this matter with regard to issue 2. I take the view that, as there has been a finding of fact in the District Munsifs Court and as that finding of fact stands, not having been attacked by the vakil in the lower appellate Court, we cannot interfere. In the circumstances, this second appeal must be dismissed with costs.

Ananthakrishna Aiyar, J.

5. I agree. With reference to the argument of Mr. Somayya on the question of law, I -wish to add a few words. Mr. Somayya, the learned vakil for the appellant, was asked how he was entitled to raise in second appeal the question of fact covered by issue 2 (the question regarding title) when the vakil for the plaintiff in the lower appellate Court did not seek to impugned the finding already recorded against him by the District Munsif on that issue In answer to this question, the learned vakil replied that the principle of law which makes the client bound by admission of fact made by his counsel apply only to suits and that only to that stage of the suit when evidence was being recorded; the reason of the rule, according to him being that by virtue of such an ad-mission made by the pleader of one party the other party was precluded from adducing evidence that he might otherwise have adduced upon the particular issue. I am afraid I cannot agree with this conation. No doubt the decision of the Privy Council reported in Venkata Narasimha Naidu v. Bhashyakarlu Naidu [1902] 25 Mad. 367, (the Vallur case) was a case where the counsel appearing for the party did make an admission in the course of the trial of the suit in the first Court, but I do not at all agree to the proposition contended for by Mr. Somayya that so long as nothing had happened in the way of precluding the other party from adducing all the evidence that he might choose to let in parties are not bound by admissions of fact made by their counsel.

6. Let us see what one would be driven to if Mr. Somayyas proposition is accepted. If his proposition is accepte