Obligating a farm owner to pay 209.7 thousand dirhams to the heirs of a fodder merchant

The Al Ain Court of First Instance ruled that a farm owner was obligated to pay the heirs of a feed trader the amount of 209 thousand and 730 dirhams, the value of feed that he had purchased but had not paid for their inheritor. The court indicated that the decisive oath that the defendant returned had settled the case in their favor.

In detail, the heirs of a feed merchant filed a lawsuit against a farm owner, in which they demanded that the decisive oath be given to the defendant, in the form of, “I swear to God Almighty that I have paid the claim amount of 209 thousand and 730 dirhams to the plaintiffs’ father, and that the plaintiffs’ father does not have any amount left in my debt. And God is a witness to what I say,” pointing out that their inheritor worked in the field of selling fodder, and the defendant had been dealing with him for more than eight years. He pays the amounts due from him on credit, but he did not pay the amount due from him, while the defendant submitted a memorandum in which he claimed that the plaintiffs were arbitrarily requesting a decisive oath, and he acknowledged that his debt was occupied by an amount not exceeding 75 thousand dirhams only, the value of the actual and real indebtedness he owed to the benefit of their inheritor, and he requested rejection. The suit.

For its part, the court decided to direct the decisive oath to the defendant in the form: “I swear to God Almighty that the plaintiffs’ inheritor is only entitled to the amount of 75 thousand dirhams of the value of the feed that he supplied to me, and that he is not entitled to the total amount claimed in the present lawsuit, which amounts to 209 thousand and 730.” A dirham, and God is witness to what I say.” So the defendant decided that he was requesting that the decisive oath of the heirs’ representative be returned in the form of “I swear By God Almighty, our inheritor deserves from the defendant the amount of 209 thousand and 730 dirhams in full from the value of the fodder that he supplied to the defendant, and God is a witness to what I say.” The representative of the heirs accepted the decisive oath and swore it in the prescribed form.

The court explained in the merits of its ruling that what is established is that the plaintiffs’ representative swore an oath that the defendant’s liability to their inheritor was occupied in the amount of 209 thousand and 730 dirhams, and then this oath settled the dispute in their favor, and the plaintiffs’ claim to the defendant became clear on a valid document with which the plaintiffs must respond to their request, and the court ruled. Obligating the defendant to pay the plaintiffs the amount of 209 thousand and 730 dirhams as stated in the reasons, and obligating him to pay the fees. And expenses.

. Court: The plaintiffs’ representative swore an oath that the defendant owed them to their heir an amount equal to the value of the fodder he bought from him but did not pay for.