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NIDHI GUPTA
Inder Singh – Appellant
Versus
Punjab State Electricity Board, Patiala – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
NIDHI GUPTA, J.
Present second appeal is filed against the judgment and decree dated 11.12.1995 passed by learned Additional District Judge, Ferozepur; whereby the judgment and decree dated 25.11.1993 passed by learned Additional Senior Sub Judge, Ferozepur, has been reversed. The appellant before this Court is the plaintiff.
2. The case as set up by the appellant-plaintiff is that his buffalo died due to electrocution after coming into contact with a stray wire of the electric pole installed by the respondents-defendants in front of his house. It has further been averred in the plaint that the electric pole in question had been uprooted due to high velocity storm and thereafter, the respondents-defendants i.e. the Punjab State Electricity Board, had repaired it only temporarily.
3. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that as the respondents-defendants failed to properly repair the electric pole in front of the appellant’s house, his buffalo came in touch with the stray wire and was electrocuted resulting in its death, causing great loss to the appellant. In support of his contention, Learned counsel refers to the facts and evidence as recorded by the learned trial Cou
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