{"id":13179,"date":"1923-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1923-08-20T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/thirumurthy-chetty-vs-ponnan-chetty-alias-karuppan-on-21-august-1923"},"modified":"2016-12-09T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T04:49:03","slug":"thirumurthy-chetty-vs-ponnan-chetty-alias-karuppan-on-21-august-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/thirumurthy-chetty-vs-ponnan-chetty-alias-karuppan-on-21-august-1923","title":{"rendered":"Thirumurthy Chetty vs Ponnan Chetty Alias Karuppan &#8230; on 21 August, 1923"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Thirumurthy Chetty vs Ponnan Chetty Alias Karuppan &#8230; on 21 August, 1923<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 76 Ind Cas 843, (1924) 46 MLJ 51<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1.  This is a suit to recover money payable under an award. It is cognizable by a Court of Small Causes [Vide Simpson v. McMaster (1890) ILR 13 M 344 and Mizaji Lal v. Partab Kunwar (1919) ILR 42 A 169]. No second appeal lies and therefore this Civil Miscellaneous Appeal must be dismissed with costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The appellant&#8217;s pleader has quoted the authority of Kunja Behary Bardhan v. Gost Behary Bardhan (1917) 22 CWN 66. The suit there dealt with involved the partition of immoveable property and the award could not be enforced piecemeal by giving the plaintiff a decree for a sum of money which was also due under the award.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. There is a remark in that judgment that a suit for enforcement of an award is in essence a suit for specific performance of a contract. But a suit for the recovery of money, as this is, can in no sense he treated as a suit to enforce a contract. Moreover, the observation that a suit to enforce an award and a suit to enforce a contract are practically the same is opposed to the view taken in earlier decisions of the same Court [Vide Sukar Hajam v. Oli Mohammad (1914) 25 I.C. 826 and Bhajahari Saha Banila v. Behary Lal Basak (1900) ILR 33 C 881].\n<\/p>\n<p>4. We see no reason to interfere with the order of the lower Court in the exercise of our revisional powers under Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The result will be as above slated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Thirumurthy Chetty vs Ponnan Chetty Alias Karuppan &#8230; on 21 August, 1923 Equivalent citations: 76 Ind Cas 843, (1924) 46 MLJ 51 JUDGMENT 1. This is a suit to recover money payable under an award. It is cognizable by a Court of Small Causes [Vide Simpson v. 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