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1955 Supreme(All) 254

OAK, AGARWALA
BARHU SINGH – Appellant
Versus
KHARPATTU – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
Krishna Shankar, Surendra Narain Singh


AGARWALA, J.

( 1 ) THE facts of the two cases are as follows. One Nepal Singh predecessor-in-interest of the plaintiff-respondents executed a usufructuary mortgage or mortgages in favour of Bacha alias chenol Singh predecessor-in-interest of the defendant-appellants for a consideration of Rs. 499/ -. The exact date of the mortgage or mortgages is not known but they were executed somewhere in the year 1881-82. The property mortgaged was an occupancy holding. In the year 1945 the plaintiff-respondents filed a suit for accounting under Section 33, U. P. Agriculturists Relief Act. They alleged that nothing was due under the mortgage or mortgages as the usufruct of the mortgaged property had satisfied the mortgage money. The defence to the suit was that the mortgage or mortgages were executed more than 60 years ago and this relationship of mortgagor and mortgagee had ceased to exist between the parties and the suit was time-barred and was not maintainable. The trial Court held that the suit having been brought more than 60 years of the execution of the mortgage, the relationship of mortgagor and mortgagee had ceased to exist and the suit was not maintainable. On appeal the lower court h
























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