Orissa Court September 1963 Judgments
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Jayagopal Patnaik Vs. Chairman, Puri Joint Water Works Committee and a ...
Court: Orissa
Decided on: Sep-03-1963
Reported in: AIR1964Ori69
ORDERG.K. Misra, J.1. Defendant 1 is the petitioner. Plaintiff's case is that the defendants were the joint proprietors of the Grand Hotel, Puri, that they had taken water connection to the said hotel and are liable to pay water rates to the plaintiff. The defendants did not pay the arrear water rate of Rs. 335.86nP. from October 1952 to March 1960. Due to default the water connection was cut off on 31-3-1960. The suit is for recovery of the arrear water rate of Rs. 335-86nP.2. Defendant-2 was ex parte. Defendant-1 alone filed written statement and contested the suit. He admits that he and defendant-2 were joint proprietors of the hotel, but asserts that he is not liable to pay the arrears as the plaintiff did not recognise him as a tenant in respect of the water rate and that he did not take the water connection. The maintainability of the suit was also questioned.3. The learned S. C. C. Judge held that the defendants were joint proprietors of the Grand Hotel to which water connection...
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