Supreme Court · 1995 INSC 473 · Decided 17 August 1995
Khagendra Lall Dutta and ANR. v. Jacob Sole Jacob
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1995 INSC 473 · [1995] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 803
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7587/1995
- Decided
- 17 August 1995
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, B.L. HANSARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
B Tenancy Laws: Residential accommodation-Tenancy of-Death of tenant and his successor-Suit for ejectment--Reliance on documents to establish sub-tenan- C cy-Held, in absence of any specific plea of sub-tenancy in written statement, no amount of evidence can be looked into in that behalf. The respondent was a tresspasser thereon. It was alleged that the appellant demised the suit premises to the original D tenant. After his death, his wife succeeded to the tenancy rights. After her death on 9.7.1981, when the appellant wanted to take possession of the property, the respondent
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