Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 236 · Decided 1 April 2014
V. Kala Bharathi & ORS. v. The Oriental INS. CO. LTD., BR. Chitoor
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 236 · [2014] 5 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3056/2008
- Decided
- 1 April 2014
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI, N.V. RAMANA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Motor Vehicles Act Section 173
Headnote
A B Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Or. 21, r. 1 - Motor accident claim - Compensation - Grant of - Award passed C under the Motor Vehicles Act comprising of principal amount alongwith interest and costs -Amounts deposited by judgment debtor falling short of the decretal amount - by judgment debtor to be adjusted first towards interest or towards principal decretal amount - Held: On facts, o the decree passed by the trial Court or the appellate Court did not contain the mode of appropriation and in the absence of any such direction, the decree-holder is entitled to
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