Judges
Madras High Court

Justice P.B.Balaji

Madras High Court · 2025–2026
31 judgments in the LexStreak library · 31 with headnotes
OA.866/202601 Oct 2026
Dr. E. Subaya @ Esakki Subaya v. Kanthimathinathan
The Madras High Court dismissed a returned candidate's application under Order VII Rule 11 CPC to reject an election petition concerning the 2026 Ambasamudram Assembly election, holding…
Civil Procedure / CPCConstitutional Law
OA.839/202601 Oct 2026
Dr. E. Subaya @ Esakki Subaya v. Kanthimathinathan
The Madras High Court struck off, under Order VI Rule 16 CPC, the prayer in an election petition concerning the 2026 Ambasamudram Assembly election to declare the runner-up duly elected,…
Civil Procedure / CPCConstitutional Law
CRP.4209/202625 Aug 2026
Goraman Integrated Logistics Private Limited v. Gowri Shankar
The Madras High Court set aside an order referring the parties to arbitration under Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, holding that a company which is itself the…
Arbitration
2026:MHC:337614 Aug 2026
B. MOHANA v. LAKSHMINARAYANAN
The Madras High Court dismissed a civil revision, holding that leave under Clause 12 of the Letters Patent is unnecessary for a suit for land situate within the High Court's ordinary…
Civil Procedure / CPC
CRP.3833/202607 Aug 2026
Chemicals India v. Vicoans Infrastructure and Environment
The Madras High Court partly allowed a rent control revision, holding that the question of title is not germane in Rent Control proceedings, that attornment of tenancy on a transfer of the…
Property / Land
2026:MHC:329807 Aug 2026
A.Senthil Murugan v. Nirmal Kumar
The Madras High Court held that an application under Section 151 CPC to recall an order permitting withdrawal of a suit is maintainable even though the Code makes no provision for it, and…
Civil Procedure / CPC
CRP No.1015 of 202631 Jul 2026
Nagarajan v. Susheela
The Madras High Court held that once a final decree in a partition suit has been passed on a compromise, acted upon and attained finality, an application for a supplementary final decree is…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
SA. No.15 of 202524 Jul 2026
N.Karthik v. J.Pushpalatha
The Madras High Court dismissed a husband's second appeal against dismissal of his divorce petition as not maintainable, holding that where the divorce petition and the wife's restitution…
Family / MatrimonialCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:289717 Jul 2026
PADMAVATHI v. K.RAMAN
The Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) allowed a second appeal and dismissed a suit for specific performance of an agreement of sale, holding that although the suit was within limitation and…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
SA(MD).199/201910 Jul 2026
M.Shanmugam Pillai (died) v. P.Stanley Samraj
The Madras High Court allowed a second appeal and decreed a suit for declaration and recovery of possession, holding that on a preponderance of probabilities a 1937 mortgage deed presumed…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
SA(MD).97/202110 Jul 2026
T.K.RAMACHARI, (Died) v. T.V.NAMPERUMAL (Died)
The Madras High Court allowed a second appeal and dismissed a suit for recovery of possession as barred by limitation, holding that the limitation clock began when the plaintiff impleaded…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:261503 Jul 2026
Maragadhavel v. V.V.V.S. Sivagnana Pandian
The Madras High Court dismissed a second appeal against the reversal of a declaration and recovery decree, holding that a plaintiff seeking declaration of title must establish it and cannot…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:284722 Jun 2026
K.THANAMMAL v. R.Muthammal 1st
Second appeal in a partition suit in which both Courts below had upheld two Wills although no attesting witness to either was examined and the scribe alone was relied on. Holding that a…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
SA(MD).390/201811 Jun 2026
VETRISELVAN v. SAMARASAM
The Madras High Court dismissed second appeals claiming a temple pathway as a common passage, holding that boundary recitals in a settlement deed and a sale deed do not confer title, that…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
SA(MD).128/202205 Jun 2026
R.ANURADHA v. S. VASANTHA
Second appeals against a First Appellate Court decree that had reversed the trial Court and decreed a suit for declaration of title after admitting additional evidence under Order XLI Rule…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:219605 Jun 2026
S.Sebasthi Nadar (died) v. A.Savariyappan
The Madras High Court allowed a second appeal and restored a decree of declaration and injunction, holding that the defendant's own registered sale deed showing the plaintiff's land as its…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:216305 Jun 2026
JAYALAKSHMI v. M.PRAKASAM @ SATHIYASEELAN
Second appeals against concurrent decrees granting a share in joint family properties to a person claiming to be the son of an alleged second wife. Holding that the benefit of Section 16 of…
Family / MatrimonialProperty / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
SA(MD).650/202030 Apr 2026
C.MUTHAIAH v. J.RAJAPRIYA
Partly allowing a second appeal, the Madras High Court held that section 34 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 bars a civil suit in respect of a matter the Adjudicating Authority…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:169730 Apr 2026
THOMPSON v. KASI NADAR (DIED)
The Madras High Court dismissed a second appeal against the reversal of a decree declaring the plaintiff's entitlement to 19½ cents bequeathed to him under his father's Will. It held that…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:169430 Apr 2026
S.PAULRAJ(Died) v. K.SUBBURAMAN
In a second appeal arising from a suit for declaration of title and permanent injunction, the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) held that a party who was himself a party to a registered…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:168730 Apr 2026
Amala v. Kulasamuthu
The Madras High Court allowed a second appeal and remitted a suit for specific performance, holding that while a defence pleaded in the written statement permits reliance on additional…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:154310 Apr 2026
K.S.Krishnasamy (Died) 1.K.Umamaheshwari v. Lakshmi
Appeal suit in a family property dispute turning on a Will and on a plea raised without foundation in the pleadings. The Court held that relief can rest only on the pleadings, that a…
Property / Land
2026:MHC:132630 Mar 2026
B. Kannan v. J. Margaret Alice
The Madras High Court dismissed first appeals against the refusal of specific performance, holding that a plaintiff must prove and not merely aver readiness and willingness even where the…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:132530 Mar 2026
A.KRISHNASAMY GOUNDER v. M.KOWSALYADEVI
Dismissing a first appeal against a preliminary decree for partition, the Madras High Court held that mere registration of a Will does not dispense with proof under Section 68 of the…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
2026:MHC:132430 Mar 2026
R.Ravikumar v. R.Nagaraj (Deceased)
The Madras High Court held that a suit for partition simpliciter is not maintainable where a registered settlement deed and the consequent sale deed stand unchallenged, the plaintiff being…
Property / LandCivil Procedure / CPC
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