GOVINDA KRISHNA SATHE Vs. HANMAYA LINGAYA FULMALI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The plaintiff sued for an injunction. Such a suit comes within Section 7, para (iv), of the Court Fees Act and the Court fee had to be computed according to the amount at which the relief sought was valued in the plaint, which valuation the plaintiff was entitled to fix himself.

(2.) He valued the claim at Rs. 10 but also added another valuation of Rs. 500 for purposes of jurisdiction. The memorandum of appeal was valued in the same way. The District Judge holding that under Section 8 of the Suits Valuation Act there could not be two valuations in a suit of this nature, one for Court fees and another for jurisdiction, ordered the plaintiff to pay the balance of Court fees as if the claim had been valued at Rs. 500. On the plaintiff failing to comply with this order the appeal was rejected.

(3.) As the plaintiff was entitled under clause 7 of the Court Fees Act to value his claim at Rs. 10 it was wholly unnecessary for the plaintiff to fix any value for the purposes of jurisdiction, as by a 8 of the Suits Valuation Act the value determinable for the computation of Court fees and the value for the purposes of jurisdiction shall be the same: Bai Hiragavri v. Gidabdas . This principle was approved of by the Privy Council in Swnderabai v. Collector of Belgaum (1918) 21 Bom. L.R. 1148