Supreme Court of India

N. Mohan v. R. Madhu

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Reported as [2019] 14 S.C.R. 156
Bench R. Banumathi, A. S. Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy JJ.
Decided 21 November 2019
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What the Court ordered

Held as under:- 36. … A right to question the correctness of the decree in a first appeal is a statutory right.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – Or. IX, r.13 and s.9 6(2) – Respondent-plaintiff case was that he lent appellan t a sum of Rs.45,00,000/- and appellant-defendant failed to re turn the said amount – The suit was decreed ex-parte – Thereafter, appell ant filed application u/s.5 of the Limitation Act to condone delay of 276 days in filing the petition u/Or. IX, r.13 CPC to set as ide the ex-parte decree – The petition was dismissed by the Trial Court an d revision against the same was dismissed by the High Court – The SLP preferred against the said order also came to be dismisse d by the Supreme

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