1985 CLC 1509 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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FAZAL DIN VS MUHAMMAD SHAFIQUE West Pakistan Urban Rent Restriction Ordinance 1959--13 , West Pakistan Urban Rent Restriction Ordinance 1959 ---S.13--Provisional Constitution Order (1 of 1981), Art. 9--Ejectment--Relationship of landlord and tenant--Oral evidence adduced in support of tenancy not very helpful in resolving controversy--Not an iota of evidence existing that construction on plot in occupation of tenant was raised by landlord or by any of their predecessors-in-interest--Tenant leading evidence that construction was raised by him and that he was in possession thereof soon after partition--Power of attorney produced by landlords inspiring no confidence for placing reliance upon them--No convincing evidence existing to show that tenant ever acknowledged respondents as his landlords or ever paid rent in token of acceptance of his status as tenant--Entire evidence looked in its true perspective clearly representing title dispute between parties--Orders of eviction of tenant set aside in circumstances.