Supreme Court of India

Hiralal and Others v. Badkulal and Others

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Reported as [1953] 1 S.C.R. 758
Bench Mehr Chand Mahajan and Bhagwati JJ.
Decided 12 March 1953

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated above this appeal has no merits and we accordingly dismiss it with costs.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Acknowledgment- Whether gives fresh cause of action- Practice -Party in possession of documentary evidence- Duty to produce. Where the defendants who had dealings with the plaintiffs for several years signed the following entry in the plaintiffs' ac­ count book underneath the earlier entries: "After adjusting the aceounts Rs. 34,000 found correct pay­ able". Held, that this amounted to an unqualified acknowledgment of liability to pay and implied a promise to pay and could be made the basis of the suit and gave rise to a fresh cause of action. Maniram v. Seth Rup Chand (33 I. . 165), Fateh

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