Bombay High Court
Vachhani Keshabhai Baliabhai vs Vachhani Nanbha Bawaji on 26 November, 1908
Equivalent citations: 1IND. CAS.108
JUDGMENT
1. The question that we have to decide is whether in a suit for a declaration and consequential relief the Court must accept the value of the relief stated in the plaint for the purpose both of the Court-fees and jurisdiction.
2. We think that the words of Section 8 of the Suits Valuation Act, VII of 1887, lead to that conclusion; and we find that this was the view taken by the Calcutta High Court in Hari Sankar Dutt v. Kali Kumar Patra 32 C. 734.
3. We have been pressed by a decision of the Court in Dayaram v. Gordhandas, 8 Bom. L.R. 885 but that is a case which is clearly distinguishable, because the learned Judges there treated it as a suit in which there was a claim for possession.
4. We, therefore, make the rule absolute and set aside the order of the lower Court with costs.