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2025 Supreme(Online)(AP) 18371

HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
Ninala Jayasurya, Tuhin Kumar Gedela, JJ
Bijinavemula Tholisamma – Appellant
Versus
Dusani Sivamma – Respondent
CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS APPEAL No: 626 of 2025



Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: N.Sriram Murthy
For the Respondents: Ambati Sudhakar Rao

A temporary injunction under Order 39 Rule 1 CPC requires the court to carefully analyze pleadings and documents on record, including marking them, before granting the relief.

Headnote:(A) Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Order 39, Rule 1 and Section 151 - Temporary injunction - Principles for grant of - Prima facie case, balance of convenience, and irreparable injury - The court must consider pleadings and documents on record before granting injunction. (Paras 13-18)

(B) Temporary injunction - Grant of discretionary relief - The court must exercise sound judicial discretion and not substitute its view without proper analysis of evidence. (Paras 14-15)

(C) Temporary injunction - Requirement of marking documents - Courts must mark documents at the interlocutory stage to enable a proper prima facie conclusion. (Paras 25-27)

Facts of the case:
The respondents filed a suit seeking partition of properties claimed to be joint family properties. The appellants denied the joint nature, asserting an oral partition in 1963 and exclusive ownership. Along with the suit, the respondents sought a temporary injunction restraining the appellants from alienating the properties. The trial court granted the injunction without marking the documents filed by the appellants, which included over 60 documents. The appellants appealed the order.

Findings of Court:
The appellate court found that the trial court failed to properly analyze the pleadings and documents before granting the injunction, contrary to established legal principles. The order was set aside, and the matter was remanded for fresh consideration after marking the documents.

Issues: Whether the trial court's order granting a temporary injunction was sustainable given its failure to consider the documents and pleadings on record?

Ratio Decidendi: The court held that a temporary injunction must be granted only after a careful consideration of the pleadings and documentary evidence. The court must mark the documents before deciding an interlocutory application. The trial court's failure to do so rendered its order unsustainable. Result : Appeal allowed. The matter is remanded to the trial court for fresh disposal within eight weeks, with parties directed to maintain status quo.

Table of Content
1. suit and application for temporary injunction in a partition dispute. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6)
2. contentions of parties and the point for determination. (Para 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12)
3. legal principles for granting temporary injunction and trial court's failure. (Para 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22)
4. remand with directions to mark documents and maintain status quo. (Para 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28)

The Court made the following judgment: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice Ninala Jayasurya)

The present Civil Miscellaneous Appeal is filed against the order dated 05.08.2025 passed in I.A.No.246 of 2023 in O.S.No.2 of 2023 on the file of the Court of the III Additional District Judge, Kurnool at Nandyal.

2. The respondents herein / plaintiffs filed the said suit against the appellants / defendants seeking the following reliefs:

a) for passing of preliminary decree for partition of plaint schedule properties into 2 equal shares and allot one share each to the plaintiffs and defendants i.e., half share to plaintiffs 4 and 5 in the half share of plaintiffs half share and 1/3rd share each to plaintiffs 1 to 3 in the remaining half share of plaintiffs half share and 1/7th share each to defendants 1 to 7 in the remaining half share of defendants in the plaint schedule properties with regard to good and bad qualities and deliver possession of the same to the plaintiffs.

b) for passing of final decree in terms of preliminary decree;

c) for permanent injunction restraining the defendants and their legal heirs from alienating or create any encumbrances like sale, gift, mortgage etc., or transferring the suit property in any manner in favour of anybody till the disposal of the suit;

d) to award costs;

e) and to grant such other relief or reliefs as the Court deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case.

3. It is the case of the respondents / plaintiffs that the appellants / defendants are their close relatives, that some of the plaint schedule properties belonged to one Mr.Bala Linga Murthy Reddy, who had two sons viz., Nagarlapati Nagireddy and Lingamurthy Reddy and both of them died long back. Mr.Nagarlapati Nagi Reddy married one Venkata Subbamma after the death of his first wife Smt.Subbamma, that the said Venkata Subbamma is no more and the first wife of Nagarlpati Nagireddy had only one daughter by name Lingamma and she also died. The said Lingamma had one daughter and one son viz., K.Subba Rathnamma (4th plaintiff) and D.Sekhara Reddy (5th plaintiff) and the second wife of Nagarlapati Nagireddy i.e., Venkata Subbamma had three daughters viz., Dusani Sivamma (first plaintiff), Seelam Saraswathi (second plaintiff) and Geereddy Ammani @ Lakshmi (third plaintiff). It is the further case of the plaintiffs that during the life time of the said Nagarlapati Nagireddy and Nagarlapati Linga Murthy Reddy, they purchased some of the plaint schedule properties with the joint nucleus funds of other joint family properties and all the plaint schedule properties are construed as joint family properties and the plaintiffs and the defendants are having shares in the plaint schedule properties as per Law, being co-parceners. It is also their case that in view of the death of Mr.Nagarlapati Nagi Reddy, Nagarlapati Linga Murthy Reddy as also his son Mr.Siva Reddy, the defendants who are the legal heirs of the said Siva Reddy are managing the joint family plaint schedule properties on behalf of them and also on behalf of the plaintiffs and sharing the income to the plaintiffs i.e., legal heirs of the deceased Nagarlapati Nagi Reddy as per the Law deriving from the plaint schedule properties till one year prior to filing of the suit and as the defendants stopped sharing the income to the respondents / plaintiffs, they got issued a legal notice and thereafter filed the suit.

4. The appellant No.3 / defendant No.3 filed a detailed written statement admitting the relationship between the parties, but denying that the plaint sched

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