Supreme Court · 1965 INSC 176 · Decided 8 September 1965
Ambika Prasad Thakur and ORS. v. Maharaj Kumar Kamal Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1965 INSC 176 · [1966] 1 S.C.R. 758
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 435/1959
- Decided
- 8 September 1965
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, J.R. MUDHOLKAR, R.S. BACHAWAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 114, 33
Headnote
Evidence Act (I of 1872), s. 114--Existence of state of things provcd­ lnference of con1iuuity backwards-Wlrerher pertnissible. A B The appellants claimed title to the lands in dispute on the hasis of •· 4( I) of the Bengal Alluvion and Dcluvion Regulation XI of 1825. To estabiish prove C that the lands \\'ere gained by gradual accession from the n .. 'Cc<;s of the river and that the lands were accretions to plots in the possession of the appellao1s or their ancestors. Since the suney records from 1892 to 1909 showed that appcll:in'.s' ancestors held son1c of the
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