Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 181 · Decided 22 July 1987
Govind Potti Govindan Namboodiri v. Kesavan Govindan Potti & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 181 · [1987] 3 S.C.R. 615
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2114/1972
- Decided
- 22 July 1987
- Bench
- O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, K. JAGANNATHA SHETTY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Kerala Nambudiri Act, 1958: Malaya/a Brahmins governed by Hindu Law-Income earned from hereditary profession of Malaya/a Brahmins-Properties purchased from such income-Whether joint family properties. c Practice and procedure: Court not to be prisoner of indecision- Clarity and promptness for. The plaintiff's great grandfather executed a partition deed Ex. P. 1 under which the properties acquired by him were divided into four D shares as described in Schedules A, B, C & D and distributed to his sons and grandsons. The plaintiff claimed in a suit for partition that
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