Supreme Court · 1965 INSC 58 · Decided 5 March 1965
National Bank of Lahore LTD v. Sohanlal Sehgal and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1965 INSC 58 · [1965] 3 S.C.R. 293
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 929/1963
- Decided
- 5 March 1965
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, J.C. SHAH, R.S. BACHAWAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 380, 409; Limitation Act Section 36
Headnote
Limitation Act, 1908, First Schedule, Articles 36 and 115-Scope of The respondents hired Jockers in the safe deposit vaults from the appellant bank at J ullundur through its manager under different agreements on various dates during 1950. In April 1951, the lockers were tampered with and the were removed by the Manager. In due course the Manager was prosecuted and convicted for theft. The respondents filed three suits against t)le bank for the recovery of different sums being the value of the contents of ihe lockers which had been removed. The bank denied its liability on various
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