Supreme Court of India

Azgar Barid (d) by Lrs. v. Mazambi @ Pyaremabi and Others

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Bench L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai JJ.
Decided 21 February 2022

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the perverse approach of the First Appellate Court in arriving at the findings would give rise to a substantial question of law, thereby justifying the High Court to interfere with the same.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Appeal – Second Appeal – Suit for partition – Objection of appellant-defendant that since plaintiff Nos.4 to 8, whose claim was denied by the trial court and who had not challenged the same by way of appeal, were not entitled to relief in second appeal – Held: In a suit for partition, the position of the plaintiff and the defendant can be interchangeable – Each party adopts the same position with the other parties – So long as the suit is pending, a defendant can ask the Court to transpose him as a plaintiff and a plaintiff can ask for being transposed as a defendant – In that view of the…

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