Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | 1872 Contract Act Kerala Chitties Act |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Act(s) Referred | Kerala Chitties Act, 1975 (23 of 1975) Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872) |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Dismissed |
Headnote | Contract Act, 1872: s. 74--Kuris and Chitties-Prized subscriber executing bond-Provision for payment in lump sum with 12% interest on default-Whether unconscionable and penal. Kerala Chitties Act, 1975: ss. 6, 7 & 28-Prized subscriber defaulting to pay subscriptions-Consequences of-Whole sum becoming ~ payable in lump sum with 12% interest-Such provision whether unconscionable and penal. The respondents who were subscribers to a Kuri (Chit Fund) in 1962, committed default after they had prized the tickets and realised the amounts. The bonds executed by them contained a provision that in case of default they would be liable to pay all the future instalments in a lumpsum with interest at 12% without giving any credit for the dividend. The suit filed for realisation of the principal sum with interest and the balance Kuri due was decreed by the trial court in 1965. In appeal before the High Court it was contended for the defendant-respondents that the stipulation in the agreement that on default the Kuri foreman would be entitled to recover the entire balance amount with 12% interest in a lump sum without giving credit to the subscribers was unconscionable and penal and hence not enforceable. The Division Bench took the view that the Kori transaction and the contract between the Kori foreman and the subscribers burdened them with unconscionable interest and were unreasonable. It, therefore, partly allowed the appeal by modifying the decree refixing the Interest. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice V. Khalid |
Neutral Citation | 1987 INSC 94 |
Petitioner | K.p. Subbarama Sastri & Ors. Etc. |
Respondent | K.s. Raghavan & Ors. Etc. |
SCR | [1987] 2 S.C.R. 767 |
Judgement Date | 1987-04-03 |
Case Number | 85 |
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