State Of Madras vs N. K. Nataraja Mudaliar on 18 April, 1968
12. For the claimants, reliance has been placed on an unreported judgment of this Court in Miscellaneous F. A. No. 320 of 1973 (Kant) wherein the valuation of a similar quarry in a land acquired for the same purpose, was considered. The land concerned in the said case was survey No. 7317-A of Kudupu village which is a neighboring village to the village in the instant case. In the said case, there was evidence that the granite quarry which, existed in the acquired land, had been leased out for a sum of Rs. 100/- per month. Therefore the annual rental from that quarry was Rs. 1,200/-, the land in the said case, with the quarry, was valued at Rs. 24,000/-. We placed reliance upon decision of the Privy Council in secretary of State v Sheranugaraya Mudaliar, (1593) ILR 16 Mad 369 (PC) and confirmed the award made by the learned Civil Judge, In that case also, the Land Acquisition Officer had ignored the existence of granite rock in the land acquired and had valued the land merely as a dry land as in the, instant case.