Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 92 · Decided 29 October 1957
Dhian Singh Sobha Singh & Another v. The Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 92 · [1958] 1 S.C.R. 781
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5/1954
- Decided
- 29 October 1957
- Bench
- NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI, SYED JAFFER IMAM, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 80, 110
Headnote
~I S.C.R. SUPREME COURT REPORTS 781 DHIAN SINGH SOBHA SINGH & ANOTHER THE UNION OF INDIA (BHAGWATI, JAFER IMAM and GAJENDRAGADKAR JJ.) Bailment-Non-delivery of goods by bailee-Rights and remedies of bailor-Election-Action for wrongful deten­ tion and wrongful conversion-Distinction-Value (Act V of 1908), s. 80. The appellants, by an agreement, let out two trucks on hire to the respondent. The respondent terminated the. agreement but failed to return the trucks on the fixed date on the plea that they had already been returned to a part-­ ner of the appellants. The
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