Mr.M.R.Venkatesawaralu v. Dr.M.R.Bharathi and 9 others
Case brief
What is this about?
Madras High Court, K.KUMARESH BABU J., A.No.2609 of 2025 in C.S.No.94 of 2023, order dated 16-07-2025. Interim stay of further proceedings in a suit (which inter alia involves division/partition of properties, with the B Schedule property) refused where the B Schedule property is also the subject matter of O.S.No.6050 of 2019 before the XVII Addl. City Civil Judge, Chennai, a suit for declaration of title filed jointly by the applicant and all parties to the present suit against a third party; no common interest of parties; transfer application earlier dismissed; belated application filed after DW-1 began evidence; held to be an attempt to protract the proceedings; application dismissed. No statute or precedent cited.
What did the court decide?
The B Schedule property in the present suit is admittedly also the subject matter of O.S.No.6050 of 2019, in which the parties to this suit jointly sought declaration of title against a third party; while that suit may have a bearing on the B Schedule property, the earlier transfer application was dismissed because there is no common interest between the parties in the suit and the defendant in the City Civil Court suit.