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1940 DIGILAW 29 (ALL)

Jai Krishna v. Abdul Rahman, Official Receiver

1940-01-24

YORKE, ZIA-UL-HASAN

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JUDGMENT Zia-ul-Hasan and Yorke, JJ. - This is an office report in First Civil Appeal No. 17o of 1939 to the effect that the court-fee paid on the memorandum of appeal is deficient by a sum of Rs. 162-8-0. The learned Counsel for the appellant contests the office report. 2. The suit of the plaintiff-appellant was for recovery of money on foot of bahi khata accounts. The loans were said to have been taken by defendant No. 3 and his son, defendant No. 2, who subsequently became an insolvent and his property became rested in the official receiver, who was impleaded as defendant No. 1. The plaintiff's case was that the goods of the firm Bhupendra Nath Jitendra Nath were hypothecated for the loans advanced to defendants 2 and 3. The Court below decreed the plaintiff's suit for the amount claimed but gave him a personal decree against defendant No. 3. He has filed this appeal in which he prays that the decretal amount be declared to be a charge on the goods of the firm mentioned above. 3. We have heard the Counsel for parties but are of opinion that the case is covered by the decision in Shantran Ji v. Deputy Commissioner, Manager of Court of Wards, Mahewa Estate, Kheri 1940 OWN 26 : 1940 OA 48 : 1940 AWR (CC) 32. It is argued on behalf of the respondent that the goods in question belong solely to defendant No. 2, against whom the suit of the plaintiff was dismissed and that as the plaintiff wanted a decree against the property of defendant No. 2 in the possession of defendant No. 1, he should pay ad value court-fee on the entire amount of the claim. It appears, however, that the plaintiff's suit against defendant No. 2 was dismissed because he was an insolvent and the plaintiff could not obtain a decree against him in a regular suit without going to the insolvency Court. Moreover, it is not correct to say that the goods in question belong solely to defendant No. 2. It has been found by the Court below that the loans were taken by defendants 2 and 3 as members of a joint Hindu family and that the shop in question belongs to the joint family. 4. Moreover, it is not correct to say that the goods in question belong solely to defendant No. 2. It has been found by the Court below that the loans were taken by defendants 2 and 3 as members of a joint Hindu family and that the shop in question belongs to the joint family. 4. As in the present appeal the appellant is appealing only against the manner in which the decree is to be executed, the declaratory court-fee paid by him in addition to the court-fee on the costs mentioned in paragraph 5, is in our opinion sufficient. 5. We therefore reject the office report and hold that the court fee paid is sufficient.