Supreme Court · 1964 INSC 290 · Decided 16 December 1964
Mugneeram Bangur & CO. v. Sardar Gurbachan Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1964 INSC 290 · [1965] 2 S.C.R. 630
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 180/1962
- Decided
- 16 December 1964
- Bench
- K.N. WANCHOO, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Contract Act Section 56
Headnote
B Contract Act, s. 56-Contract to purchase plot-Subject to comp~- twn of development work-Government requisitioning /and-Rendering completion temporarily unlawful-Whether contract disc.harged. In May 1941, the respondent had entered into a contract with the appellant company for the purchase of a to complete the c transaction within one month from the date of completion of certain development work by the appellant. Thereafter, the land in question was requisitioned by the Government under the Defence of India Rules and the company was therefore unable to undertake the development work
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