Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 142 · Decided 24 August 1966
MST. Ramrati Kuer v. Dwarika Prasad Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 142 · [1967] 1 S.C.R. 153
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 981/1964
- Decided
- 24 August 1966
- Bench
- K.N. WANCHOO, J.C. SHAH, R.S. BACHAWAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 32(3)
Headnote
Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (I of 1872), ss. 32, 158-Deponent's ad­ mission againsit his interest--Conscious knowledge, if necessary-Later statement to ccmtradict, relevancy. The appellant's mother executed a gift deed in favour of the appel­ lant claiming that she inherited the property in her father-in-law. The respondents claiming title to the property filed a suit challenging the gift doeed on the ground that the father-in-law of the dono< (mother) had survived the husband and therefore she could not have inherited the property under the Hindu Law as then pre.vailing. For
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