Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 294 · Decided 27 July 1999
K.S. Satyanarayana v. V.R. Narayana Rao
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 294 · [1999] 3 S.C.R. 1213
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4048/1999
- Decided
- 27 July 1999
- Bench
- S. SAGHIR AHMAD, D.P. WADHWA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Evidence Act Section 73; Contract Act Section 70, 72
Headnote
B Contract Act, 1872: Sections 70 and 72. c I Undue enrichment-Privily of contract-Lack of -Plaintiff entered into an agreement to sell, with defendant No. 2, on being so authorised in writing and signed by defendant 1 (owner)-Plaintiff paid Rs. 1 lakh each to defendants Nos. 1 and 2-Agreement to decreed against defendant No. 2, but dismissed against defendant 1 for lack privily . of contract-Held: Lack of privily of contract is a specious plea when defendant D No. 1 received the money and payment was not gratuitously made-High Court and Trial Court not attentive to
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)