Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 209 · Decided 7 October 1966
Jammu & Kashmir Bank LTD. v. Attar-Ul-Nissa & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 209 · [1967] 1 S.C.R. 792
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 702/1964
- Decided
- 7 October 1966
- Bench
- K.N. WANCHOO, J.M. SHELAT, G.K. MITTER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Contract Act Section 72
Headnote
B. Indian Contract Act (Act 9 of 1872). s. 72- Stale Government making excess payml!nts into bank account of a constituent of bank-Bank wh~the.r can change entries to cancel such overp<.ynient without consent of consti· tuent. S tol1k a loan from the appellilllt bank on the strength of in instalments out of the land revenue to be collected by it from S's lands. Such payments on behalf of the Government were mistakenly made each year both by the Accountant General an.cl by the Treasury so that the .amount credited by the bank in S's account represented an over payment by the
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