Vithaldas Bhagvandas Vs Nagubal M. Joshi

Bombay High Court 10 Jun 1921 68 Ind. Cas. 330
Bench: Single Bench

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Pratt, J

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Pratt, J.@mdashThe plaintiff, who is the owner of a building on Sandhurst Road, seeks to evict the defendant, a lady Doctor, who is in occupation

of the ground floor as residence and first floor as a hospital and also of one motor garage in an out-house appertaining to the building.

2. The plaintiff himself lives on the New Charney Road, and has two motor oars and two carriages without horses. He says he does not require

any part of the property in the occupation of the defendant, except the motor garage; He wants this motor garage for the accommodation of one of

his tars. His tars are at present accommodated, one in a hired garage close to his residence, and the other, in a vacant shop on the ground floor of

his sister''s house. The carriages are, one, at his sister''s bungalow on Malabar Hill, and the other, in one of the other garages in the same out-

house.

3. The car, which is in the hired garage close by, is conveniently situated, and he is content to leave that car there. The car he wants to

accommodate in the garage, which he seeks to acquire possession of, is the car which is in his sister''s shop. He says the car is only temporarily

accommodated there, but surely it is not likely that his sister would turn that car out of the shop. The only extra convenience he gets by removing

the oar from the sister''s house to the garage in suit, is a gain of four or five minutes in time. The shop in his sister''s house, is ten minutes from his

own residence, and the garage in suit is four or five minutes distant.

4. Again, I see no reason why the plaintiff should not remove the carriage which is in one, of the same garages in the same out-house and

accommodate his car there. The carriages are not in use and be ought to be able to find godown-accommodation for that carriage somewhere

else.

5. On these facts, I am not satisfied of the bona fides of the plaintiff''s requirement.

6. But even assuming that the plaintiff''s requirement is bona fide it is not reasonable. Plaintiff must sue to evict the defendant from the whole of her

premises in occupation as his tenant, and I must, therefore, that with the suit on that footing. It comes to this, therefore, that a bona fide requirement

of a small fraction of the premises lased does not, in my opinion, amount to a reasonable requirement of the whole of the premises. For these

reasons, therefore, I find on the issue framed, in the negative, and dismiss the plaintiff''s suit with costs.

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