Supreme Court of India

Kiran Singh and Others v. Chaman P Aswan and Others.

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Reported as [1955] 1 S.C.R. 117
Decided 14 April 1954
Status Distinguished

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the appeal fails and is dismmised with costs.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Suits Valuation Act (Vll of 1887), s, 11-Appeal under-valued and presented to a Court of inferior jurisdiction-Whether a decree passed by it on the merits is a nullity-Whether mere change of form or error in a decision on the merits, prejudice tuithin the mean­ ing of section 11 of the Suits Valuation Act-Whether a party who invokes a jurisdiction of a Court can complain of prejudice on the ground of over-valuation or under-valuation. The policy underlying section ll of the Suits Valuation Act, as also of sections 21 and 99 of the Code of Civil Procedure, is that when a case has been tried by

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