Kalpana Ajit Salave v. Pundalik Malla Mang @ Ankushe
2013-10-22
B.SREENIVASE GOWDA
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DigiLaw.ai
Judgment : 1. This second appeal is by the first defendant in O.S.No. 5/1999 challenging the judgment and decree of the Courts below, whereby the trial Court decreed the suit partly declaring that plaintiffs are the owners to an extent of 2/3rd share in the suit property which was confirmed by the lower appellate Court. 2. The plaintiffs have brought this suit for the relief of declaration that they are the absolute owners of the suit property measuring 24 guntas in RS No.141/6 at Kodani village and for consequential relief of permanent injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with their possession and enjoyment of the suit property contending that Ningappa the grand father of first plaintiff, Shivappa the father of plaintiffs No. 2 and 3 and Hariba the father of Smt. Bayakka had 1/3rd share each in the suit property. The 1/3rd share of Hariba upon his death was inherited by his only daughter Bayakka. Accordingly, the names of plaintiffs and Bayakka were appearing in the ROR. During the life time of Bayakka she had executed a registered will dt. 29-1-73 bequeathing her 1/3rd share in the suit property and other properties in favour of her uncles Ningappa the grand father of plaintiff No.1 and Shivappa the father of plaintiffs 2 and 3 and upon her death on 14-8-90, the plaintiffs succeeded to the 1/3rd share of Bayakka and became owners of the same and their names were mutated in the ROR vide ME No.6267 by bracketing the name of Bayakka. That being so, the defendants having no manner of right, title and interest over the suit property attempted to encroach upon the same and they have demolished the boundary marks between the suit property and the adjoining lands. Therefore they have brought this suit for declaration to declare that plaintiffs are the absolute owners of the suit property and for the consequential relief of permanent injunction. 3. The defendant No.2 filed written statement denying the averments made in the plaint as false and frivolous and contending that suit survey number was under the absolute ownership of Hariba the father of Bayakka.
3. The defendant No.2 filed written statement denying the averments made in the plaint as false and frivolous and contending that suit survey number was under the absolute ownership of Hariba the father of Bayakka. Bayakka being his only daughter succeeded to the suit property upon the death of her father and started enjoying the suit property and other properties as absolute owner and later on she sold the entire suit survey number in favour of Ajith Vishwanath Salve the husband of the first defendant and the father of defendant No.2 for her legal necessity through a registered sale deed dt. 13-3-73 and delivered actual possession of the suit land in his favour and after the death of the said Ajit Vishwanath Salve, the defendants succeeded to the suit property and they are in possession of the same. With this, they requested for dismissal of the suit. 4. Material on record discloses that the suit property and other properties were partitioned among Ningappa and children of Shivappa and Bayakka - the daughter of Hariba and in the said partition the suit properties were divided into 3 parts vide ME No. 4512 dt. 1-6-80. The courts below have further noticed that if the suit property is the exclusive property of the said Hariba, mutation entries ought not to have taken place in the names of plaintiffs and there was no need for all the three brothers viz., Hariba the father of Smt. Bayakka, Ningappa and Shivappa to execute a mortgage deed in favour of one Khot jointly. 5. The trial Court considering the above material on record and the entries in the revenue records has held that Smt. Bayakka the daughter of Hariba having 1/3rd share in the suit property could not have sold the entire suit property in favour of the first defendant and decreed the suit of the plaintiffs holding that they are having 2/3rd share in the suit property. 6. The lower appellate Court on reappreciation of the entire oral and documentary evidence on record, dismissed the appeal filed by the defendants 1 and 2 and confirmed the judgment and decree passed by the trial Court. 7.
6. The lower appellate Court on reappreciation of the entire oral and documentary evidence on record, dismissed the appeal filed by the defendants 1 and 2 and confirmed the judgment and decree passed by the trial Court. 7. I have carefully gone through the judgments and decrees passed by both the Courts below and do not find any illegality or irregularity warranting my interference and I do not find any substantial question of law which arises for my consideration in this second appeal. 8. Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed as devoid of merits. 9. It is open for the defendants to seek allotment of 1/3rd share of their vendor Smt. Bayakka in their favour by initiating final decree proceedings, or in the final decree proceedings, if any has already been initiated by any of the parties to the suit.