Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1188 · Decided 20 October 2009
Grasim Industries LTD. & ANR. v. M/S. Agarwal Steel
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1188 · [2009] 15 S.C.R. 283
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5994/2004
- Decided
- 20 October 2009
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 34
Headnote
Deeds and Documents: Presumption as regards signatures of parties on a document - Agency agreement - Joint statement of account - Signatures of agent thereon - Agent stating that his signatures were only in lieu of a receipt - Arbitrator holding A B C: I oi ' the signatures of agent to mistake - D HELD: When a person signs a document, there is a presumption, unless there is proof of force or fraud, that he has read the document properly and understood it and only then he has affixed his signatures thereon, otherwise no signature on a document can ever be accepted - Jn
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