Chennai Court July 1887 Judgments

Ponnambala Pillai Vs. Sundarappayyar

Court: Chennai

Reported in: (1897)7MLJ240

1. The facts of this case lie in a small compass, and there was so little dispute about them that no issues of fact were raised in the Court of First Instance. In 1872, before the birth of the plaintiff, his father, together with his brother, Saminada, having certain debts to pay off, entered into an oral contract with the defendant to sell to him their family lands in the village of Anakkudi and their share of the palace in the same place for the sum of Rs. 29,000. On the 10th May 1872, the vendors wrote to the defendant the letter marked XVIII. In it they say that three velies and odd have not yet been delivered into their possession under the court-decree, and they ask the defendant to let the matter stand over and take a sale-deed in respect of the remaining properties for Rs. 25,000, expressing their willingness to execute a sale 'in respect of the said maniams, punjah, &c;, lands for a sum of Rs. 3,500 as soon as we get possession of the same.' To this request the defendant acced...