https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200068 Summons was held not duly served, because the process-server did not identify the defendant and the person pointed out was not the defendant who later appeared. The ex parte decree therefore could not be sustained on service alone, and limitation for setting it aside turned on actual knowledge of the decree. Under Article 164 of the Indian Limitation Act, knowledge had to relate to the particular decree, court, party and sum, and vague information that some decree had been passed was insufficient. Information that a decree of about Rs. 6,000 had been passed did not amount to the requisite knowledge, so the application was not time-barred. en-us Wed, 21 Oct 1959 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:25:46 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200068 Summons was held not duly served, because the process-server did not identify the defendant and the person pointed out was not the defendant who later appeared. The ex parte decree therefore could not be sustained on service alone, and limitation for setting it aside turned on actual knowledge of the decree. Under Article 164 of the Indian Limitation Act, knowledge had to relate to the particular decree, court, party and sum, and vague information that some decree had been passed was insufficient. Information that a decree of about Rs. 6,000 had been passed did not amount to the requisite knowledge, so the application was not time-barred. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 21 Oct 1959 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=200068