WILLIAMS Vs. LOURDUSAMY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Whether principle of res-judicata is applicable to the facts and circumstances of this case, is the question involved herein.

(3.) First respondent, however, filed a suit against the appellant herein in the Court of District Munsif, Thiruvaiyaru praying for a decree for permanent injunction alleging that the land in suit admeasuring 3 cents was the subject matter of an oral agreement of sale by and between himself and the second respondent herein. It was contended that the second respondent had been in possession of the said land in terms of a patta executed under the Kudiyiruppu Act being Act 40 of 1971.