Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 117 · Decided 8 February 2018
Mahanth Satyanand @ Ramjee Singh v. Shyam Lal Chauhan and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 117 · [2018] 2 S.C.R. 521
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6318/2010
- Decided
- 8 February 2018
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, S. ABDUL NAZEER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908: O.XXII, r.5 - Impleadment of legal representative in pending appeal - High Court allowing impleadment applications preferred by rival contenders entitling both the contenders to raise their respective arguments in subject matter of suit without legal representative of the deceased - Propriety of - Held: When a question arises before the Court in a pending matter as to who will come on record as the legal heir of the deceased, the Court shall, before proceeding to decide with the substantive issues involved in the case,
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