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Earnest John White Vs. Mrs. Kathleen Olive White & Ors [1958] INSC 17 (10 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 10 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 17 SC

Divorce Act, 1869

Headnote :

The appellant sued his wife for dissolution of marriage on the ground of her adultery. On the evidence the trial court found that it was not possible to hold that adultery had been committed, though it found that one of the letters contained "a large substratum of truth". The High Court...

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Virsa Singh. Vs. The State of Punjab [1958] INSC 18 (11 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 11 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 18 SC

Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC)
IPC Section 300. Murder
IPC Section 302. Punishment for murder

Headnote :

The accused thrust a spear into the abdomen of he deceased. This injury caused his death. In the opinion of the doctor the injury was sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature. It was found by the Sessions judge that the accused intended to cause grievous hurt only. In his opinio...

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M.P. Vs. Sundararamier & Co. Vs. The State of Andhra Pradesh & ANR [1958] INSC 19 (11 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 11 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 19 SC

Constitution of India
Delhi Laws Act, 1912

Headnote :

The petitioners were dealers carrying on business in the City of Madras in the sale and purchase of yarn. The dealers in the State of Andhra used to place orders for the purchase of yarn with the petitioners in Madras, where the contracts were concluded and the goods were delivered exgodown at Madra...

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Re: The Kerala Education Bill, 1957 [1958] INSC 20 (15 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 15 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 20 SC

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC)
Constitution of India
Delhi Laws Act, 1912
Government of India Act, 1935

Headnote :

This was a reference under Art. 143(1) of the Constitution made by the President of India for obtaining the opinion of the 996 Court upon certain questions relating to the constitutional validity of some of the provisions of the Kerala Education Bill, 1957, which had been passed by the Kerala Legisl...

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M/S. Kasturi And Sons (Private) Ltd. Vs. Shri N. Salivateeswaran & ANR [1958] INSC 21 (19 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 19 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 21 SC

Constitution of India

Headnote :

The respondent No. I was a journalist supplying news to the petitioner's newspaper on payment of a fixed monthly honorarium. Contrary to the petitioner's instructions the respondent No. I left India and thereupon the petitioner terminated the arrangement. Upon his return to India the respond...

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Bala Subrahmanya Rajaram Vs. B.C. Patil & Ors [1958] INSC 22 (19 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 19 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 22 SC

Headnote :

The Industrial Court, Bombay, awarded bonus equal to 4 1/2 months' wages to the operatives of the Tata Mills Ltd. and directed that those operatives who were no longer in the service of the Mills should be paid the bonus in one lump sum by a fixed date and in such cases claims in writing should...

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Keshavlal Lallubhai Patel & Ors& Ors Vs. Lalbhai Trikumlal Mills Ltd. [1958] INSC 23 (21 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 21 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 23 SC

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC)
Indian Contract Act, 1872
Section 29. Agreements void for uncertainty
Section 63. Promise may dispense with or remit performance of promise

Headnote :

The appellants entered into a contract with the respondent mills for the purchase of certain goods in which the time for delivery was fixed for the months of September and October, 1942. Before the expiry of the time fixed there was a strike in the mills and the respondent wrote a letter to the appe...

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The State of Bihar Vs. Basawan Singh [1958] INSC 24 (21 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 21 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 24 SC

Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC)

Headnote :

The respondent, a sub-inspector of police, was charged with acceptance of Rs. 100 as a bribe from two persons, B and P, for dropping a case which he had instituted against B under the Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946. The prosecution case was that when the demand for the bribe made by...

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Shrimati Shantabai Vs. State of Bombay & Ors [1958] INSC 25 (24 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 24 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 25 SC

Constitution of India
Section 105. TPA, Lease defined.

Headnote :

By an unregistered document the husband of the petitioner granted her the right to take and appropriate all kinds of wood from certain forests in his Zamindary. With the passing of the Madhya Pradesh Abolition of Proprietary Rights (Estates, Mahals, Alienated Lands) Act, 1950, all proprietary rights...

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Raigarh Jute Mills Ltd. Vs. Eastern Railway & ANR [1958] INSC 26 (24 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 24 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 26 SC

Headnote :

The appellant company owned jute mills situated in Raigarh in the State of Madhya Pradesh, and it had to bring raw material from many railway booking stations outside the State as there was no other means of transport both for bringing jute to the mills and for carrying the finished products to port...

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Chandranath Mukherjee Vs. Tusharika Debi & Ors [1958] INSC 27 (24 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 24 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 27 SC

Headnote :

The time limit of six months provided by s. 5 of the Bengal Tenancy Act within which a tenure-holder has to give notice of his succession to the landlord or have his name mutated in his rent-roll is not mandatory but directory in character and the only effect which non-observance of that time-limit...

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Workmen of Assam Co. Vs. Assam Co. Ltd. [1958] INSC 28 (28 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 28 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 28 SC

Headnote :

The appellants claimed bonus for the years 1950, 1951 and 1952 at the rate of six months' wages per year. The Industrial Tribunal to which the dispute was referred allowed, in calculating the surplus available for payment of bonus, inter alia return on paid up capital and on the reserves at 7% a...

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Seth Gulab Chand Vs. Seth Kudilal & ANR [1958] INSC 29 (28 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 28 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 29 SC

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC)
Constitution of India
Gwalior

Headnote :

The rule that a statute is not to have retrospective operation can apply only where it is doubtful from the language used whether or not it was intended to have such operation. Where the language of the statute plainly gives it a retrospective operation, there can be no scope for applying the rule o...

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Shri Ram Krishna Dalmia Vs. Shri Justice S. R. Tendolkar & Ors [1958] INSC 30 (28 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 28 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 30 SC

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC)
Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952
Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952

Matajog Dobey Vs. H. C. Bhari [1955] INSC 61 (31 October 1955)

Headnote :

In exercise of the powers conferred upon it by S. 3 of the Commissions of Enquiry Act, 1952, the Central Government by a notification dated December 11, 1956, appointed a Commission of Inquiry to inquire into and report in respect of certain companies mentioned in the Schedule attached to the notifi...

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Kapur Chand Pokhraj Vs. The State of Bombay [1958] INSC 31 (28 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 28 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 31 SC

Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC)
IPC Section 304. Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder

Dalip Singh & Ors Vs. State of Punjab [1953] INSC 42 (15 May 1953)

Headnote :

The appellant was registered under the Bombay Sales Tax Act, 1946. He maintained double sets of account books and knowingly furnished, for the period September 30, 1950 to March 31, 1951, false returns to the Sales Tax Officer and thereby committed an offence under S. 24(1)(b) of the Act. Under t...

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Babulal Bhuramal & ANR Vs. Nandram Shivram & Ors [1958] INSC 32 (31 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 31 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 32 SC

Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947
Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947

Headnote :

A who was a tenant of N sub-let the premises to B and C. N filed a suit for ejectment against A, B and C in the Court of Small Causes, Bombay, on the ground of illegal subletting. The suit was decreed. Thereafter, A, B and C filed the present suit in the Bombay City Civil Court for a declaration tha...

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Gordhandas Purshottamdas Sonawala & ANR Vs. The Eastern Cotton Company [1958] INSC 33 (31 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 31 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 33 SC

Bombay Cotton Contracts Act, 1932

Headnote :

Sub-section (1) of s. 8 of the Bombay Cotton Contracts Act, 1932, provides: " Save as hereinafter provided in this Act, any contract .... which is entered into after the date on which this Act comes into operation and which is not in accordance with the by-laws of any recognized cotton associat...

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Kanhaiyalal Vs. Dr. D. R. Banaji & Ors [1958] INSC 34 (31 March 1958)

Judgement Date : 31 Mar 1958

Citation : 1958 Latest Caselaw 34 SC

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC)

Headnote :

The appellant was the auction-purchaser of the property at a revenue sale held under the provisions of the Berar Land Revenue Code, 1928, for recovery of land revenue due. The property at the time of the attachment and sale was in the possession of a Receiver appointed under Or. 40, R. i of the Code...

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