2017 YLRN 294 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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MUHAMMAD AZEEM VS Syed ANWAR MASOOD ZAIDI Ss. 15 & 34---Ejectment of tenant---Default in payment of rent---Substitution of legal representative of dead person in eviction proceedings--- Scope---Contention of tenant was that eviction petition was filed against a dead person i.e. against his father which was not maintainable---Ejectment petition was accepted concurrently--- Validity---Eviction petition could be filed on the ground of default which was one of the grounds of present ejectment application---Both the courts below had rightly decided that tenant had committed default in payment of rent---Dead person could be substituted with the legal representative---No jurisdictional defect, legal infirmity, irregularity or illegality had been pointed out in the impugned orders passed by the courts below---Constitutional petition was dismissed in circumstances.