Supreme Court · 1964 INSC 157 · Decided 8 May 1964
State of Punjab v. Modern Cultivators, Ladwa
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1964 INSC 157 · [1964] 8 S.C.R. 273
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 416/1947
- Decided
- 8 May 1964
- Bench
- A.K. SARKAR, M. HIDAYATULLAH, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Limitation Act Section 2, 3
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 273 STATE OF PUNJAB v. MODERN CULTIVATORS, LADWA (A. K. SARKAR, M. HIDAYATULLAH AND J. R. MUDHOLKAR, JJ.) Torts-Break in canal bank-Suit for damages-defendants' negligence­ Non-production of documents by defendant-If adverse inftreuce can be drawn-Whether principle Re! crops suffered by flooding. '.Jf its Jands as a result of a break in a canal belonging to the State. The plaintiff's case was that there was a breach in the western bank of the canal owing to the negligence of the defendants and canal water escap!!d to the fields 1.:ausing them to be flooded. The
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