{"id":250345,"date":"1897-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1897-04-08T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bojjamma-vs-venkataramayya-and-ors-on-9-april-1897"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:19:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:49:20","slug":"bojjamma-vs-venkataramayya-and-ors-on-9-april-1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bojjamma-vs-venkataramayya-and-ors-on-9-april-1897","title":{"rendered":"Bojjamma vs Venkataramayya And Ors. on 9 April, 1897"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Bojjamma vs Venkataramayya And Ors. on 9 April, 1897<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1898) ILR 21 Mad 30<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: A J Collins, Shephard<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">1. It is not quite clear that this really was a benami transaction; but, assuming that it is we do not think that the payee and holder of a promissory note is debarred from suing on it by reason of the fact that a third person is really interested in it. No doubt it has been often held in suits relating to land that a benamidar is not competent to sue in his own name. But there is a great distinction between cases of that sort and the case of negotiable instruments. The distinction between suits relating to immoveable property and suits on contracts appears to be recognized by the <a href=\"\/doc\/51724779\/\" id=\"a_1\">Privy Council Gopeerkrist Gosain v. Gungapersaud Gosain<\/a> 6 M.I.A. 72 and <a href=\"\/doc\/1091036\/\" id=\"a_1\">Hari Gobind Adhikari v. Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar I.L.R<\/a>. 16 Cal. 364. In the case of negotiable instruments especially it would be most mischievous in our opinion to hold that the holder and payee of an instrument may be put to proof as to whether the money advanced was his own. We can find no reported authority in favour of the plea now suggested. We entirely disagree with the unreported decision in Ganapati Naicken v. Saminatha Pillai Civil Revision Petition No. 578 of 1895 unreported.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">2. We must reverse the decrees of the Courts below and the plaintiff must have a decree against the first defendant as prayed with costs throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Bojjamma vs Venkataramayya And Ors. on 9 April, 1897 Equivalent citations: (1898) ILR 21 Mad 30 Bench: A J Collins, Shephard JUDGMENT 1. It is not quite clear that this really was a benami transaction; but, assuming that it is we do not think that the payee and holder of a promissory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bojjamma vs Venkataramayya And Ors. on 9 April, 1897 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bojjamma-vs-venkataramayya-and-ors-on-9-april-1897\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bojjamma vs Venkataramayya And Ors. on 9 April, 1897 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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