HAZARI LAL Vs. GARVAR SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a plaintiff's second appeal arising out of a suit for injunction to restrain the defendants from constructing a temple or any other building on the land in dispute measuring 22' 6' (east -west) x 18' 6' (north -south) shown in red pencil dotted lines in the plan Ex. 4. The plaintiff's 'Nohara' is towards the west of this plot of land a distance of about 10'. The plaintiff's case is that the strip of land 10' in width lying between the constructed portion of his Nohara' and the piece of land in question is a part of his property and he had left out the same while constructing the 'Nohara'. His allegation is that the plot in dispute is a part of the public street over which he has a right of free access and is entitled to get the defendants restrained from raising any construction over it. The defendants who have been sued in a representative capacity pleaded inter -alia that the land in question was granted to the villagers some time in the year 1949 A.D. by the then Jagirdar of the village for the purpose of constructing a temple, and that foundations for the temple had been then led but due to certain difficulties the construction of the temple could not be completed They also pleaded that the plot in question is not a part of the public street and the plaintiff has no right to pass over it.

(2.) AFTER recording the evidence produced by the parties the learned Munsiff' Nimbahera dismissed the plaintiff's suit. The appeal filed by the plaintiff was also dismissed by the learned Civil Judge, Partabgarh. Hence this second appeal.

(3.) IT does appear to me from the evidence produced by the parties that the foundations of the temple were undoubtedly laid more than 20 years before the filing of the suit. What is the effect of the same, is, however, a point on which a finding is called for.