Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 22 · Decided 16 February 1970
Chinnamuthu Gounder and ORS. ETC. v. P. A. S. Perumal Chettiar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 22 · [1970] 3 S.C.R. 704
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1116/1966
- Decided
- 16 February 1970
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Madras Cultivating Tenants -,,..tection Act (Mad, 25 of 1955), ss. 3(2) (Ii) and 6A-Scope of. A I The respondent, who was the occupancy ryot of an inam village, filed a suit for eviction of his lessees, the appellants (who were the cultivating tenants) , and for possession of the land. The The lower courts and the High Court 'found that the appellants wilfully denied the title of the respondent. and decreed the suit. On the question of the jurisdiction of the civil ceurt to try the suit, HELD : Under s. 6A of the Madras Cultivating Tenants Protection Act, 1955, the civil
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