Chennai Court July 1956 Judgments

T. Krishnaveni Ammal Vs. the Corporation of Madras

Court: Chennai

Reported in: AIR1957Mad671

Rajamannar, C.J.1. This is an appeal against the judgment and decree of Ramaswami Gounder, J., dismissing the appellant's suit on the Original Side of this Court, C. S. No. 148 of 1930, against the Corporation of Madras, the respondent before us. The suit was for the recovery of Rs. 10,845-S-O or such other sum as may be found due as arrears of 'melwaram' in respect of lands described in schedules A, B and C to the plaint.2. The plaintiff is the present Zamindarant of the Zamin village of Mambalam. The material allegations in the plaint were that she and her predecessors were entitled to collect and were collecting melwaram from the various kudivaram-dars occupying the lands comprised in the Zamindari, that the melwaram varied according to the nature of the land, that is according to the use to which the land had been put, that in the case of agricultural lands the melwaram collected from the kudiwaramdars was four annas per ground per fasli and in the case of building sites one rupee ...