{"id":90826,"date":"1891-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1891-08-27T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/krishna-bhatta-vs-lakshminaranappa-on-28-august-1891"},"modified":"2015-11-28T17:12:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T11:42:53","slug":"krishna-bhatta-vs-lakshminaranappa-on-28-august-1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/krishna-bhatta-vs-lakshminaranappa-on-28-august-1891","title":{"rendered":"Krishna Bhatta vs Lakshminaranappa on 28 August, 1891"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Krishna Bhatta vs Lakshminaranappa on 28 August, 1891<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1892) 2 MLJ 13<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. We are of opinion that Section 12 of the Rent Recovery Act does not apply to this case. In the first place it is not shown that the plaintiff comes within the class of landholders defined by Section 3, and next it is impossible to suppose that in an Act for consolidating and improving the law for the recovery of rent, it could possibly be intended to repeal the ordinary law relating to contracts and enact that one contracting party could put an end to the contract whenever he chose and the other never. (See the remarks of Holloway J. at page 173 in the case reported at 6 M.H.C.R., 164, Ghockalinga Pillai v. Vythealinga Pundara Sunnady.)<\/p>\n<p>2. The appeal is dismissed with costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Krishna Bhatta vs Lakshminaranappa on 28 August, 1891 Equivalent citations: (1892) 2 MLJ 13 JUDGMENT 1. We are of opinion that Section 12 of the Rent Recovery Act does not apply to this case. 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