Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 142 · Decided 12 August 1974
Kuju Collieries LTD. v. Jharkhand Mines LTD. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 142 · [1975] 1 S.C.R. 703
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1865/1967
- Decided
- 12 August 1974
- Bench
- P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, A. ALAGIRISWAMI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Contract Act Section 65, 70, 72, 2
Headnote
Contract Act. s. 65-Scope of-Payment not made under coercion or ignorance of fair-Whether recoverable. The appellant paid to the first respondent a large sum of money in respect of' mining lease granted to it. the appellant (plaintiff) instituted a suit for recovery· of possession of the of the sum paid to the first respondent. After institution of the suit the Bihar Land Reforms Act came into force as a result of which the appellant's claim in respect of posses~ sion of the mines became unenforceable. The appe1Iant, therefore, confined its claim for the recovery of the sum
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