258 259 of 59 and 404 of 60.
Appeals by special leave from the judgment and orders dated July 2, 1956, January 9, 1957 and June 16,1958 of the Bombay High Court in Special Civil Applications Nos.
Rameshwar Nath, for the respondent in C.A. No.
M. Limaye, V.L. Narasimha Moorthy, E. Udayaratnam and S.S. Shukla, for the appellants.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeals Nos.
1471, 1527 and 2990 of 56 and 1431 of 1958 respectively.
C. Kamble and A.G. Ratnaparkhi, for respondents Nos.
These authorities refused in three of these cases to make an order for possession either because the tenants had paid up all rent which had fallen in arrear or because the authorities thought it proper on the facts of the case to give them time to pay up.
1 and 3 in C. S. No.
258/59 .
They felt that the tenants were entitled to relief against forfeiture on equitable principles.
259/59 and the respondent in C.A. No.
404 of 60 .
The landlords have therefore filed these appeals with leave of this Court.
1 in C. A. No.
G. Patwardhan, B.C. Kamble and A.G. Ratnaparkhi, for respondent No.
December 1.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SARKAR, J. These four appeals are by landlords whose applications to the authorities under the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948 for possession of the lands held by their tenants, on the grounds had that the tenancy had been terminated by due numberices on the tenants failure to pay rents for three years, were dismissed.
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