IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA C.R. No.2069 of 2008 JANARDAN SINGH Versus UMESH PRASAD SINGH & ORS ----------- 3 19.12.2008 The court below has rightly rejected the prayer of the defendant-petitioner for deciding the suit of preliminary issue. It has to be noted that the suit was filed in the year 1995 and such a prayer for deciding the suit on a preliminary issue came to be made only on 23.5.2008 i.e. after thirteen years. That apart, the preliminary issue, being also a question of fact requiring leading of evidence pertaining to the valuation of the suit property, would not strictly fall within the scope of Order XIV Rule 2 wherein a pure question of law alone is to be decided as the preliminary issue. That being so, this Court would not find any jurisdictional error in the impugned order and accordingly, this civil revision application is dismissed with the aforementioned observations. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)