Natvarlal Maganlal Amin (Deed. Through ... vs Amin Thakorbhai Maganbhai on 12 February, 1985
The High Court held that it was a finding of fact by the Court below on full consideration of the evidence that the properties were divided by metes and bounds by the arbitrator and the parties were in possession of their respective properties allotted to them, and then after referring to the decision of the Supreme Court in Kashinathsa v. Narsingsa (supra) held that the ratio of the decision of that case fully applied to the case before the Orissa High Court, It thus appears from the facts of the case before the Orissa High Court that the suit was filed in respect of the very same properties which were actually divided by metes and separate possession was handed over to the respective parties to whom the respective properties were allotted and in that view of the matter, held that the suit was not barred. This decision of the Orissa High Court is thus not of any assistance to the plaintiff in the present case. It is true that the parties in the present case also have acted upon a part of the award by the defendant executing the sale-deed. Ex. 144 in favour of the wife of the plaintiff, but we are not concerned with that part of the award. We are concerned with that part of the award which has not been acted upon and it cannot be said that the suit is maintainable simply because the remaining part of the award is acted upon. I fail to understand how this decision of the Orissa High Court could have been pressed into service by the learned trial Judge.