Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 396 · Decided 13 May 2020
Jagmail Singh & ANR. v. Karamjit Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 396 · [2020] 4 S.C.R. 1163
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1889/2020
- Decided
- 13 May 2020
- Bench
- NAVIN SINHA, KRISHNA MURARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 65, 66
Headnote
Evidence Act, 1872 - ss.65 and 66 - Entitlement to lead secondary evidence in respect of a document - Appellant filed suit for declaration of title in respect of land and for declaration that the mutations sanctioned by Assistant Collector in favour of pre-decessors-in-interest During pendency of suit, appellant filed application under ss. 65/66 seeking permission to prove copy of Will by way of secondary evidence - Trial court allowed the application - However, High Court set aside order of trial court holding that appellant ought to have given notice to
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