If the plea of the mortgagor were right and the Limita tion Act, 1908, had companytinued to be operative, the suit for redemption companyld have been filed on or before the 1st of November, 1973.
It was claimed that this acknowledgment companystitut ed a fresh starting point for companyputing the period of limi tation.
He sought to meet the plea of limitation by urging that the son of the original mortgagee, while selling the property on 1.11.19 13, had specifically acknowledged the right of the mortgagor to redeem the property.
The suit property was mortgaged on 22.5.
This companytention was accepted by the trial companyrt.
3 108 of 1989.
From the Judgment and Order dated 27.1.86 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in R.S.A. No.
The appellant, however, filed the suit for re demption only on 28.12.
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The appellant is the successor in interest of the mort gagor of the suit property.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by RANGANATHAN, J. We grant leave in the Special Leave Peri tion and proceed to dispose of the appeal on the merits after hearing both sides.
In the numbermal companyrse the suit for redemption should have been filed on or before 22.5.
1946, the limita tion for such a suit being 60 years under the Limitation Act, 1908.
Jitender Sharma for the Respondents.
