Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 134 · Decided 8 August 1973
State of Madras v. REV. Brother Joseph
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 134 · [1974] 1 S.C.R. 309
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1468/1967
- Decided
- 8 August 1973
- Bench
- KUTTYIL KURIEN MATHEW, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Land Acquisition Act Section 4(1), 18
Headnote
309' Laud acquisition-Compensation for fruit bearing trees-Method of -fixing. The Land Acquisition Officer awarded compensation for certain land acquired' and the method adopted by him for valuing coconut and orange topes was to capitalise the net income from those tapes at 20 years' purchase. On the trees, accepted that the capitalisation should be .at 20 years purchase. On appeal, the High Court also held that the method of cavi~alisation was a fair method for arriYing at the market value. Dismissing the appeal by the State to this Court. HELD : The approved method for valuing
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