Rustomji Dinshaw Billimoria vs Dosibai Rustomji Master on 21 June, 1921
"Ordinarily speaking, an owner of
premises, if he says he wishes to
use them for his own purposes, is
entitled to do so. What the Rent
Act endeavors to provide for is the
case of a landlord who evicts the
existing tenants in order that he
may let them to another tenant at a
higher rent, or exact a higher rent
from the tenant on a threat of
eviction. It seems to me that the
question in that case whether the
plaintiff was reasonably
dissatisfied with the premises
which he rented in Girgaum is
irrelevant, because in any event
the plaintiff was entitled to live
in his own premises. He was not
bound to continue to rented
premises with all the uncertainties
of that tenure."