Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 718 · Decided 15 December 2003
Rame Gowda (D) BY LRS. v. M. Varadappa Naidu (D) BY LRS. and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 718 · [2003] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 850
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7662/1997
- Decided
- 15 December 2003
- Bench
- R.C. LAHOTI, B.N. SRIKRISHNA, G.P. MATHUR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Juriprudence: Possession Held-In the absence of proof of better title, possession C or prior peaceful settled possession is itself evidence of title-&ttled possession or effective possession would protect a person without title even as against the true owner-High Court's order upheld. The was raising a construction over it which was objected to by, ~be D defendant-appellant claiming that the said land formed part -;;.~is' property and was owned by him. The plaintiff-respondent filed a suit for declaration of.his titl~, as also his possession, of the disputed land. The trial.
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