Kisondas Guru Laxmandas Bairagi v. Dhondu Walad Tukaram Narvade And Others

Kisondas Guru Laxmandas Bairagi v. Dhondu Walad Tukaram Narvade And Others

(High Court Of Judicature At Bombay)

| 20-10-1919

Norman Cranstoun Macleod, C.J.

1. The 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 co-habitation. That was not the 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 co-habitation 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 comes 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.

Advocate List
Bench
  • HON'BLE JUSTICE NORMAN CRANSTOUN MACLEOD
  • C.J.
  • HON'BLE JUSTICE J.J. HEATON
Eq Citations
  • ILR 1920 44 BOM 542
  • LQ/BomHC/1919/146
Head Note

A. Transfer of Property — Real and valuable consideration — Past co-habitation — Held, not good consideration for transfer of property — Property being joint family property, purported sale by one of the coparceners would not effect partition — Transfer of Property Act, 1882 — S. 5 — Evidence Act, 1872, S. 118