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V.S.K.M. Subramania Pillai and Another vs Paramasivan Pillai

Madras High Court · Decided on 2 April 1914 · Citation: 24 Ind. Cas. 864

HON’BLE JUDGES
Tyabji, J
ACTS & SECTIONS REFERRED
Contract Act, 1872 — Section 135

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Tyabji, J.—The question is whether , the 2nd defendant ought to have been exonerated from his suretyship u/s 135 of the Indian Contract

Act.

2.

Damodar Das v. Muhammad Hussain 22 A. 351 : A.W.N. (1900) 106. is relied upon by the petitioner to show that the promise to give time

must be for consideration. However, it seems that the facts in the present case were to the following effect : the 1st defendant asked for time : the

2nd defendant agreed to give it and on this, the 1st defendant paid part of the debt.. This part-payment may be taken to be the consideration for

the promise to give time''. If this is so then the learned Judge below was right and the petition will be dismissed but without costs.