Kolkata Court January 1923 Judgments
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Dehri Sonar Vs. Emperor
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: Jan-04-1923
Reported in: AIR1923Cal707,77Ind.Cas.921
1. This Rule was granted Only on the 6th ground set out in the petition which is in the following terms, 'that the trial has been vitiated by the admission of the evidence of previous conviction prior to this accused entering upon his defence.'2. appears that on the 2rst June the accused was charged with having committed offences punishable under Sections 457 and 380 of the Penal Code, and that on the 18th July witnesses were examined to prove previous conviction of the accused, and a charge was framed that he we liable to enhanced punishment, tinder the provisions of Section 75 of the Penal Code, in consequence of previous conviction. We are unable to see that there hap been illegality r irregularity in the Magistrate's procedure. Section 310 of the Criminal Procedure Code lays down a special form of trial of the issue of liability to enhanced punishment in consequence of previous conviction. But this sect on is expressly made applicable to trials before the Court of Session only, and...
Jari Lal Pal Vs. Lal Behari Hazra
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: Jan-03-1923
Reported in: AIR1923Cal499,75Ind.Cas.625
1. The only question involved in this appeal is, whether a lease executed by a Hindu widow, under circumstances to be mentioned here in after, passed any title binding against a reversionary heir. The facts of the case have been fully set out in the two judgments of the Courts below and it is unnecessary to repeat them at length. It will be sufficient if the facts are stated shortly so far as the question involved in this appeal is concerned. It appears that a lady of the name of Raj Kumari Deby, who was the widow of one Kenaram Hazra, executed a deed of release in favour of one Ram Das Mukerjee, who was a reversionary heir of her husband. In the deed of release the lady stated that after her husband's death she had been in enjoyment of all moveable and immoveable properties left by her husband. She then went on to state that she was executing the deed of release in favour of the said Ram Das in respect of all immoveable properties left by her husband. She stated that the immoveable pr...
Rakhal Chandra Chatterjee Vs. Rohini Kumar Chatterjee
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: Jan-03-1923
Reported in: AIR1923Cal650,74Ind.Cas.601
Rankin, J.1. This Rule was issued on two grounds, the first being that the Court below had no jurisdiction, and the second being that the judgment was erroneous in law, as the learned judge had failed to decide various questions raised in the pleadings. The learned Header for the petitioner has put his case thus: that in the plaint there are really to be found two causes of action one being an action for damages for the wrongful misappropriation of certain coal belonging to the plaintiff that wrongful misappropriation resulting in a criminal offence and, therefore, coming within Clause 35, Sub-clause (ii) of the. Second Schedule to the Plaintiff Small Cause Courts Act; and the second being a claim upon a contract evidenced by a document called a chit said to have been evident by the defendant to pay a certain price for the coal in question. The complaint made is that, although the suit; considered as a claim upon a chit, was within the competence of the Small Cause Court, the learned J...
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