Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 129 · Decided 2 August 1966
Basant Singh v. Janki Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 129 · [1967] 1 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 19/1963
- Decided
- 2 August 1966
- Bench
- K.N. WANCHOO, J.C. SHAH, R.S. BACHAWAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Evidence Act; Hindu Succession Act Section 14; Succession Act
Headnote
Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), s. 17-Admission made in pleading--Relevancy in another suit. The plaintiff tendered in evidence a plaint in an earlier suit and relied on an admission made by the defendants with regard to a fact in issue in C the later suit. The High Court ruled that the rely on a state­ ment in the plaint as an admission, as she was not prepared to accept the correctne!"s of the other staten1ents in the plaint and (ii) an admission in a pleading could be used only for the purposes of the suit in which tho pleading was filed. On appeal _to this Court.
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