Supreme Court · 1965 INSC 165 · Decided 26 August 1965
Bharat Singh and ANR. v. Bhagirathi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1965 INSC 165 · [1966] 1 S.C.R. 606
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 423/1963
- Decided
- 26 August 1965
- Bench
- A.K. SARKAR, RAGHUBAR DAYAL, V. RAMASWAMI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 145
Headnote
Indian Evidence Act (I of 1872)-Admissions--Witness not confronted -Whether admissible-Hindu Law-Widow's name mutated-If suffi­ cient to prove severance of joint family. The appellants filed a suit for a declaration that the entry in the name A B of the respondent in the Jamabandi papers of of the C respondent, constituted a joint Hindu family, that their brother died as a member of the joint Hindu family and thereafter his widow-the res­ pondent-lived with the appellants who continued to be owners and possessors of the property in suit, the widow being entitled to
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