Pappapiah vs Venkataramiah on 29 January, 2015
12.As rightly argued by the learned counsel for the respondent/plaintiff, the plea relating to oral partition is one of the material and substantial issues in the earlier suit and the decision made in the earlier suit is to greater extent binding on the parties herein and is essential to decide the issue and to grant relief in the present suit, as such, the ingredients necessary for applying Section 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure are satisfied and the principle of res judicata is hence squarely applicable to the facts of the present case and is rightly applied by the lower Appellate Court. It is true that in the judgment cited on the side of the appellants, the learned brother Judge was not inclined to apply the principles of res judicata mainly on the ground that the issue involved in both the cases is not one and the same, but the same is not the situation in the present case. As such, the judgment cited on the side of the appellants is not applicable to the facts of the present case. Whereas, the Hon'ble Apex Court on more or less identical facts, made an observation in the Authority reported in ISHER SINGH V. SARWAN SINGH AND OTHERS (AIR 1965 SC 948(1), which reads as follows: