Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 58 · Decided 24 May 1957
AL. PR. Ranganathan Chettiar v. AL. PR. AL. Periakaruppan Chettiar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 58 · [1958] 1 S.C.R. 214
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 104/1954
- Decided
- 24 May 1957
- Bench
- B. JAGANNADHADAS, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, P. GOVINDA MENON (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 136(1), 133(1)(a)
Headnote
214 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1958] AL. PR. RANGANATHAN CHE1TIAR v. AL. PR. AL. PERIAKARUPPAN CHETTIAR (and connected appeal) (JAGANNADHADAS, B.P. SINHA and GOVINDA MENON JJ.) Will-Constructio~Disposition to adopted son, R-Adoption invalid-Whether R. takes property as persona designata. £Jeetl them later, he made a second adoption of the first appellant .in 1926 on the footing that such an adoption was permitted by special custom in Nattukottai Chetti families. Jn the partition suit filed by A for himself and on behalf of his minor son, the first respondent, the validity of the
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