Nannu Mal vs Ram Chander And Ors. on 19 November, 1929
2. This shows that the mere fact that the decrees in which the set-off is sought are mortgage decrees or one of the two decrees is a mortgage decree, does not by itself amount to an objection to the set-off claimed. I do not mean to say that there may not be some other objection. Without any other objection the mere fact that one of the decrees is a mortgage decree is not enough to refuse the set-off. This is the view of the Allahabad High Court in Nagar Mal v. Ram Chand (1910) I.L.R. 33 All. 240 and this was always the view of the Madras High Court prior to the Civil Procedure Code of 1908.