CHAMPALAL Vs. SAMPATRAJ

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a revision application by the defendant against an order of Munsif Sojat holding that he had jurisdiction to try the suit.

(2.) ACCORDING to the allegations made in the plaint the plaintiffs-respondents are the landlords of some agricultural land. The defendant took a lease for collecting rents from the tenants at Rs. 625/- per year. They instituted a suit for recovery of arrears of Ijara money in the court of Assistant Collector Sojat on 19-4-57. In this suit a plea was taken by the defendant that the revenue court had no jurisdiction to try it. This plea was overruled by the trial court and the suit was decreed. Against that decree the defendant preferred an appeal in the court of the Additional Commissioner who upheld his plea that the revenue court had no jurisdiction to try the suit and returned the plaint for presentation to the civil court. When the plaint was instituted in the court of Munsif Sojat the defendant took the plea that the civil court had no jurisdiction to try the suit. This plea was overruled by the learned Munsif. Against his order the present revision application has been filed.