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2015 Supreme(All) 447

ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : SUDHIR AGARWAL, J.
RAM PRAVESH AND OTHERS .....Appellants
Versus
RAM BILASH AND OTHERS .....Respondents
(Second Appeal No. 2250 of 1979, decided on 7th May, 2015)

Advocates:
Counsel :
R.S. Misra and Arun Kumar for the Appellants; A.P. Srivastava, M.K. Jain, Mithlesh Kumar Tiwari, R.B.Tripathi, R.P. Misra, Salil Srivastava,Vashistha Tiwari and Rajvanshi Tiwari for the Respondents.

Headnote:Code of Civil Procedure, 1908—Section 100—Order XLI, Rule 31—Evidence Act, 1872—Sections 41 to 43—Suit—Amendment of plaint—Effect and scope of—Whether Suit of plaintiff could be decreed by lower appellate Court without reversing the finding of trial Court that 'N' and 'S' were not Zamindars from whom plaintiff-respondents claimed the property having acquired, merely on ground that it was so mentioned in the amended plaint—Story that the land was given by the two Zamindars was set up in the oral deposition of PW-2—But there was no evidence to corroborate aforesaid oral deposition—The LAC found failed to comply with requirement of Order XLI, Rule regarding framing of point of determination to decide appeal—If dispute is between the same parties and issues have been raised, then, to the extent the principle of res judicata is applicable—For that purpose alone judgment would be relevant admissible in evidence—If an admission made by a party in a previous civil proceeding, such admission in subsequent suit would be admissible—But where the parties are different the said principle has no application—Aforesaid question answered in favour of defendant-appellant. [Paras 24 to 35]

       Result; Appeal Allowed.

       

JUDGMENT

Hon’ble Sudhir Agarwal, J.—This is defendant’s appeal under Section 100 of Code of Civil Procedure arising from judgment and decree dated 4.7.1979 passed by Sri Suresh Chandra Srivastava, Vth Additional District Judge, Deoria in Civil Appeal No. 75 of 1975, who has allowed the said appeal, reversed judgment and decree dated 16.5.1975 passed by Munsif Deoria in Original Suit No. 539 of 1969 and decreed the suit.

2. Substantial question of law which have arisen in this appeal and need be adjudicated by this Court, are as under:

(i) Whether the Suit of the plaintiff could be decreed by the lower appellate Court without reversing the finding of the trial Court that Nanai and Sheo Nath were not Zamindars, from whom the plaintiff claimed the property having acquired, merely on the ground that it was so mentioned in the amended plaint?

(ii)Whether the Judgments, Exts A-2 and Q A3 were not given due weight, though they were admissible in evidence.

3. Plaintiffs Dev Nandan and Ram Bilash instituted suit No. 539 of 1969 in the Court of Munsif, Deoria, seeking a permanent injunction against defendants in respect of land, marked by letters ABCD, at the bottom of the plaint.

4. Plaint case set up was that the plaintiffs had their house No. 281 over shikmi plots No. 83, 85 and 89 with its Sahan (open land in front of the house) in plot No. 84 and 88 and backyard in shikmi plot No. 90. Defendants had no concern therewith and therefore should be restrained by issuing permanent injunction from interfering in the peaceful possession of plaintiffs.

5. Family pedigree of plaintiffs and defendants shown in the plaint is as under:

Thakur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Pheku  

   Brij Mohan

Lal Bihari     Ritu  

       Ram Lagan 

Bhagwat   Sri Krishna     Raghunath

   (Deft. No. 5)

      Ram Sharikh @ Gobar

      (Deft No. 6)  

Pitambar Shanker   Vindhyachal       Ram Sakal

(Deft No. 1)      (Deft. No. 2)     (Deft No. 3)         (Deft No. 4)  

Tufani    Chandra Deo        Sri pati

(Deft No. 7)      (Deft No. 8)    (Deft No. 9)  

       Ram Kishun          Dev Nandan

         (Plaintiff No. 1)

       Ram Bilas

(Plainff No. 2)!Unexpected End of Formula

 

       6. Defendants contested the suit giving their own family tree combined of plaintiffs and defendants as under:

 

Family Tree

 

     Phenku        Dukhee

 

     Brij Mohan       Bhagelu      Thakur

 

Ram Kishun Devanand

      Gobardhan      Dahari    Hitu           

  X

 

     Ram Bilas     Chhapari      

      (Plaintiff No. 2)

     Lal Bihari

 

     Ram Lagan

 

      Tufani      Chandra Deo Sripati

      (Deft. No. 7)     (Deft. No. 8)   (Deft. No. 9)

 

 

       Bhagwat            Ram Kishun   Raghunath

   

      Ram Sarikh

     (Deft No. 6)

 

   Pitambar Shankar   Vindhyachal       Ram Sakal

    (Deft No. 1)      (Deft. No. 2)     (Deft No. 3)         (Deft No. 4)

 

7. It is further alleged by the defendants that house over plots No. 83, 85 and 89, and Sahan on plots No. 84, 88 and 90 is not the sole property of plaintiffs. It was an ancestral property in which plaintiffs and defendants had equal shares. Disputed land marked ‘ABCD’ was the sole property of defendants and plaintiffs had no concern therewith. Disputed land is partly in plot No. 87 and partly in plot No. 88 on which a house was constructed by defendants and they are using the same for placing Gobar, Goitha, Ghoora etc. (cow-dung, cow dung cake and heap of cow dung etc.). They also





















































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