Kisandas Laxmandas Bairagi Vs Dhondu Tukakam Narvade

Bombay High Court 27 Nov 1919 Second Appeal No. 240 of 1918 (1920) 22 BOMLR 762 : 57 Ind. Cas. 472
Bench: Division Bench
Result Published

Judgement Snapshot

Case Number

Second Appeal No. 240 of 1918

Hon'ble Bench

Norman Macleod, J; Heaton, J

Final Decision

Dismissed

Judgement Text

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Norman Macleod, Kt., C.J.@mdashThe plaintiffs sued for possession of a house as owners, alleging a sale for Rs. 100 to plaintiff No. 2 by

defendant No. 1. The trial Court found that there was no money consideration for the sale, and that as the plaintiff No. 2 had been the mistress of

defendant No. 1, the real consideration for the transaction was past cohabitation. That was not case made out in the plaint, and if, as we are told,

the point has never been decided in this Court, we are decidedly of opinion now that past cohabitation will not be good consideration for the

transfer of property. The facts of this case go even further, because it was not merely the case of plaintiff No. 2 being the mistress of defendant

No. 1, but of the connection between the two being adulterous, as plaintiff No. 2 had a husband living. Therefore it conies to this that the

transaction was really a gift, and as the property was joint family property between the defendants, and there had been no partition, the fact that

the first defendant purported to sell half the house would not thereby effect a partition. Therefore whichever way we look at it, the plaintiff must fail

and the appeal is dismissed with costs.