In Brief
This case concerns a dispute over a burial ground plot in Kurnool between two families. One family (respondents) claimed ownership through adverse possession lasting 100 years; the other (appellants) claimed to be the owners who had leased the land to the respondents. The trial and first appellate courts held the respondents failed to prove adverse possession but the appellants proved a landlord-tenant relationship. The High Court improperly admitted a second appeal despite the issues being largely factual, not substantial questions of law, and remanded the case for retrial without jurisdiction to do so. The Supreme Court restored the lower courts' decisions, holding that concurrent factual findings are binding on the High Court in second appeals unless perverse, and that remand requires the party to first raise and substantiate the ground before the appellate courts.
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