Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 860 · Decided 6 July 2009
Gangamma ETC. v. G. Nagarathnamma & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 860 · [2009] 9 S.C.R. 1167
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4126/2009
- Decided
- 6 July 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 14(1); Succession Act Section 14(1)
Headnote
~ Hindu Succession Act, 1956 - s. 14(1) - Partition suit- Of the property recorded in the name of Hindu female - Plea that the property was in fact joint family property - Held: c Plaintiff not entitled to partition in such property- By virtue of s. 14(1), the defendant was the full owner of the Respondent Nos. 1 and 2 (mother and daughter D respectively) filed a partition suit against appellant No. 1 and others. Appellant No. 1 was the mother-in-law of respondent No. 1. Plaintiffs claimed 1/3 share in the suit property. Plaintiff contended therein that although two of the items in
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