LAWS(KER)-2014-5-190

VALSALA Vs. SAROJINI PRABHU

Decided On May 22, 2014
VALSALA Appellant
V/S
Sarojini Prabhu Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This appeal is filed against the judgment and decree dated 10-4-2013 in O.S. No. 748/2009 of the Sub Court, Irinjalakuda. There was a counter claim filed by the defendants which was also dismissed by the impugned judgment. The Registry has raised an objection regarding the maintainability of the appeal before this Court by pointing out that, the valuation of the suit is below Rs. 2 Lakhs. The same has been contested by the learned counsel for the appellants by stating that the jurisdiction valuation will have to be taken as per the valuation in the suit as well as that of the counter claim. Accordingly, the matter was placed before the Bench for consideration as requested by the learned counsel for the appellants.

(2.) We heard learned counsel for the appellants, Shri Dinesh R. Shenoy and learned counsel for the respondents, Shri K.V. Sadananda Prabhu.

(3.) Shri Dinesh R. Shenoy, learned counsel for the appellants relied upon the decision of a Full Bench of this Court in A.Z. Mohammed Farooq v. State Government, 1984 KerLT 346 to contend that the Full Bench has taken the view therein while interpreting Section 13 of the Kerala Civil Courts Act, 1957 and the meaning of the term "subject-mater" that "having regard to the provisions in O. VIII of C.P.C., it is possible to hold that the 'subject-matter' of the suit would be the aggregate of the amounts claimed in the plaint and in the written statement by way of counter claim. Issues are very much interlocked and the subject-matter of the suit itself becomes rolled up and inflated as the aggregate of the claims put forward in the suit and in the counter claim".