Partly allowed

Shiv Kumar Ranasariya v. Chhaju Ram Pansari and Others

Rajasthan HC7 Jan 2019CMA/5022/2016

Case brief

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What is this about?

A single judge held that a suit for specific performance should not involve an enquiry into whether the vendor's title is ancestral or defeasible unless the suit seeks to bind non-parties. The dismissal of the appeal was quashed as it involved making allegations not found in the record.

What did the court decide?

The Appeal was dismissed and the lower court's decree was restored in part, as the specific performance suit was maintained.

Shiv Kumar Ranasariya Vs Chhaju Ram Pansari and Others — Specific Performance | Rajasthan HC (2019)

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the view that the entitlement of the plaintiffs to an order of interim mandatory injunction was in serious doubt, the Appellate Court could not have interfered with the exercise of discretion by the learned Trial Judge unless such exercise was found to be palpably incorrect or untenable. The reasons that weighed with the learned Trial Judge, as already noticed, according to us, do not indicate that the view taken is not a possible view. The Appellate Court, therefore, should not have substituted its views in the matter merely on the ground that in its opinion the facts of the case call for a different conclusion. Such an exercise is not the correct parameter for exercise of jurisdiction while hearing an appeal against a discretionary order. While we must not be understood to have said that the Appellate Court was wrong in its conclusions what is sought to be emphasized is that as long as the view of the Trial Court was a possible view the Appellate Court should not have interfered with the same following the virtually settled principles of law in this regard as laid down by this Court in Wander Ltd. v. Antox India (P) Ltd ”

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I have heard learned counsel for the parties, and, in my opinion, the enquiry by the trial Court on the question whether the suit land was ancestral m the hands of the defendant or whether the defendant was entitled to sell the suit land was whollv irrelevant in the present case. The plaintiff in his plaint has nowhere asserted that Ex. A/1 though executed by the defendant was also binding on his adult sons and his wife. In the absence of such assertion in the plaint, it was not open to the trial Court to go into the question that the defendant had defective title as the suit land was ancestral and the defendant was owner of onefourth share only. In my opinion, the vendor cannot be permitted to set UD a defence in a suit for specific performance brought by the purchaser that he had no title or had defective title to the property which he had agreed to sell. In support of my view I place reliance on Mir Abdul Hakeem Khan v. Abdul Mannan Khadri, AIR 1972 Andh Pra 178; Baluswami Aiyar v. Lakshmana Aiyar. AIR 1921 Mad 172 (FB) and Muni Samapoa v. Gurunaniappa. AIR 1950 Mad 90. It was observed by the Full Bench of the Madras High Court in Baluswami Aiyar's case (supra):

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"Where a person sues for specific performance of an agreement to convey and simply impleads the party bound to carry out the agreement there is no necessity to determine the question of the vendor's title, and the fact that the title which the purchaser may acquire might be defeasible by a third party is no ground for refusing specific performance if the purchaser is willing to take such title as the vendor has. But where a party seeking specific performance seeks to bind the interests of persons not parties to the contract alleging grounds which under Hindu Law would bind their interests and enable the vendor to give a good title as against them and make them parties, it is difficult to see how the question as to the right of contracting parties to convey any interest except his own can be avoided and a

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decree passed the effect of which will merely be to create a multiplicity of suits."

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In the present case, there is no question of the plaintiff's attempting to bind the interests of his two adult son or his wife as there was neither any such allegation made in the plaint nor they were impleaded parties to the suit. The only party to the agreement and the suit being the defendant, it is unnecessary to determine the rights of the persons who are not parties before the Court. In Muni Samappa's case. AIR 1950 Mad 90 (supra) the suit for specific performance was brought by the purchaser against the executants of the agreement to sell a house, It was held that there was no necessity to determine the question of the vendor's title, and the fact that the title which the purchaser may acquire, might be defeasible by sons of defendants was no ground for refusing specific performance if the purchaser was willing to take such title as the vendors had. The same principle was followed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Mir Abdul Hakeem Khan's case, AIR 1972 Andh Pra 178 (supra).

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Shiv Kumar Ranasariya v. Chhaju Ram Pansari and Others

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