Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 27 · Decided 25 January 1972
Govind Hanumantha Rao Desai v. Nagappa Alias Narahari Laxman Rao Deshpande and & 7 ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 27 · [1972] 3 S.C.R. 200
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 527/1967
- Decided
- 25 January 1972
- Bench
- K.S. HEGDE, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, D.G. PALEKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Hindu Law-Adoption-Theory of relation hack-Adoption by widow of deceased coparcener-Before adoption partition of property b:y surviv­ ing coparceners-Share which adoptive son entitled to. The appellant was adopted in 1955 by R's widow after R's death in 1912. In 1933, there was a partition son L, the only two coparceners existink at that time. Thereafter, K. bequeathed his properties by will to some of his relations. Later, there was a further partition between L and his son. L died in 1952. A suit was filed in 1956 by the-.appellant, claiming half of the family properties. The
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