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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> </head> <body> <div style="font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-align:justify"> <table width="800" border="0" style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:5px;" align="center" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <br /> High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh <br /><br /> Court cannot express opinion on evidence at interim stage of suit<br /><br /> MANU/AP/0747/2015 - (18 Aug 2015)<br /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Mudi Reddy Tirupathi Reddy v. T. Linga Reddy and Ors.</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:#FDEDCE"><strong>Hearing a contractual dispute, the High Court of Hyderabad declined to rule whether on the evidence adduced it was acceptable to refer a document to an expert. Given that the matter was yet to be adjudicated on its merits, the Court could not express an opinion, which could amount to prejudging the suit. It, however, disagreed with a lower court’s rejection of application to refer the document to a handwriting expert as the entire case rested on it. The petition was allowed.</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Relevant : Velaga Sivarama Krishna vs. Velaga Veerabhadra Rao and Anr. <manuid>MANU/AP/0766/2008</manuid> Janachaitanya Housing Ltd. rep. by its Managing Director, Sri Madala Sudhakar vs. Divya Financiers, A Proprietorship firm rep. by its Proprietrix, Ms. Gorantla Anjali <manuid>MANU/AP/0137/2008</manuid> Section 45 Indian Evidence Act, 1872 nActCompID=15627 Section 73 Indian Evidence Act, 1872 nActCompID=15661</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" ><strong>Tags : Interim, document, expert opinion, prejudge</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <!--<td><strong>Source : <a target="_new" href="http://www.manupatrafast.com/">newsroom.manupatra.com</a></strong></td>--> <td align="left" valign="top"><strong>Source : newsroom.manupatra.com</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Regards</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">Team Manupatra</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>