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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
P.B.BALAJI
A. Paulchamy – Appellant
Versus
V. Thangavelu – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
P.B. Balaji, J.
The plaintiff, in a suit for declaration and permanent injunction is the appellant, aggrieved by the concurrent findings of the trial court as well as the first appellate court.
2. The Second Appeal was admitted on 20.01.2020, on the following substantial questions of law:
1) Whether the observation of the Courts below that the suit property also had been directed to be partitioned under the decree in O.S.No.596 of 1974 is an error on the face of the record. While the Judgment and decree exempts the suit property in this case from the decree for partition on the ground that it belonged absolutely to Perumal Ammal and Errammal?
2) Whether the suit for declaration of title filed by the appellant /plaintiff is barred by Order 2 Rule 2 and Order 23 Rule 2(4)(b) of the Civil Procedure Code when the earlier suit in O.S.No.127 of 1997 for bare injunction had been dismissed for default?
3. I have heard Ms. Shivashree, learned counsel appearing for the appellant, and Mr. V.N. Arjun, learned counsel appearing for Mr. N.Vallinayagam, learned counsel appearing for the respondent.
4. The brief facts that may be necessary to decide the substantial questions of law framed in t
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