Supreme Court of India

Kashinath Sankarappa Wani v. New Akot Cotton Ginning & Pressing Co. Ltd.

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Reported as [1958] 1 S.C.R. 1331
Bench Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati J.
Decided 18 February 1958

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We are of the opinion that the copy should have been admitted in evidence and we do hereby admit the same.

Judgment, page 8

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Limitation-Suit on deposit receipt-Acknowledgment of iiability-EUidence-Balance sheet obtained from Registrar of Companies-Admissibility-Presumption. of awthenticitu andi corr.ectness-Commercial Documents Evidence Act (XXX of 1939), s. 3(b). The appellant advanced various sums of money to the res­ pondent, in lieu of which the respondent passed a deposit receipt for 12 months from August 1, 1939 to July 31, 1940. On June 16, 1944 the appellant filed a suit to recover the amount with in­ terest on the allegation that the amount became due on May 17, 1941 when the demand for the amount was made

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