Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 228 · Decided 23 October 1970
Gangappa Gurupadappa Gugwad Gulbarga v. Rachawwa, Widow of Lochanappa Gugwad & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 228 · [1971] 2 S.C.R. 691
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1732/1966
- Decided
- 23 October 1970
- Bench
- G.K. MITTER, A.N. RAY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Res Judicata-/ssue l'e/ating to plaintiff's l'ight to "" fou11d agaim·t plaintiff-Other issues l'egarding merits· of .case also decided against him -Decision irrespect of such other issues whether operates as res judicata ·--Whether only obiter. R wanted 10 adopt L in 1919 L inherited R's property a'fter his death. 111 1935 the appellant herein instituted a suit against L and the trustees appointed under R's will. It was the appellant's claim that the will was supplemented by a codicil (this referred to a lette~ written by R to L some time after the
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