Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 193 · Decided 15 September 1970
India Electric Works LTD. v. James Mantosh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 193 · [1971] 2 S.C.R. 397
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1646/1966
- Decided
- 15 September 1970
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Limitation Act
Headnote
Indian Limitation Act (9 ~ 1908), s. 14 'Othe~ cause of a like nature,' scope of. The plaintiff filed a money suit claiming rent in respect <if certain structures, for the -period upto the date of suit and for future rent as damages. It was decreed by the trial court in its entirety, but the . sole ground that in a pure money suit, no decree could be granted for recovery of compensa­ tion after the date of suit or after the date of decree ,The plaintilfs then filed a suit claiming damages for the period upto the date of the second suit which included the period for which the
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