All Residents Of Village vs Mohinder on 7 September, 2021
29. Reliance placed upon the judgment passed by Hon'ble High
Court of Orissa in Bhismadev Taria and another versus Radhakishan
Agarwalla and others, AIR 1968 Orissa 230 (V 55 C 66) by learned Senior
counsel representing the appellant-defendant has no application in the
case at hand because in that case Hon'ble Court held that co-sharer's suit
for possession must either be for benefit of entire body of co-sharers or
for possession of the plaintiff's share. However, in the case at hand, it is not
in dispute that at the time of filing of the suit, defendant was not a
co-sharer, rather he after having suffered decree from trial court
purchased share of one of the plaintiff. Since at the time of filing of the
suit, defendant was not a co-sharer in the suit property, there was
otherwise no occasion, if any, for the plaintiff to file suit for possession for
the benefit of entire body of co-sharers, rather at that time plaintiff filed suit
for possession on behalf of all the share holders in the suit property.