Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 693 · Decided 9 October 2014
Sri Gangai Vinayagar Temple & ANR. v. Meenakshi Ammal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 693 · [2014] 12 S.C.R. 845
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4227/2003
- Decided
- 9 October 2014
- Bench
- ANIL R. DAVE, VIKRAMAJIT SEN, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
A B Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Or. 2, r. 2 and s. 11 - Res judicata - Applicability of - Plea of appellant-trust through its C trustees that respondents/tenants of the demised property were barred by principle of res judicata from challenging the findings of trial ownership of the demised property, since the tenants filed only one appeal, i.e. arising from one suit (O.S.6178), without assailing identical D conclusions arrived at by trial court in two other suits (0.S. 51 78 and 7178) - All the three suits were connected, heard together, and decided by
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)