Supreme Court · 1951 INSC 35 · Decided 8 May 1951
Mummareddi Nagi Reddi and Others v. Pitti Durairaja Naidu and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1951 INSC 35 · [1951] 1 S.C.R. 655
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 51/1950
- Decided
- 8 May 1951
- Bench
- MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, VIVIAN BOSE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
COURT REPORTS MUMMAREDDI NAGI REDD! AND OTHERS v. PITTI DURAIRAJA NAIDU AND OTHERS [MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, MuKHERJEA and VIVIAN BosE JJ.] 655 Hindu Law-widow-Surrender-Release in favour of daughter and son-in-law-Validity-Suit by reversioner-Right to mesne pro­ fits. Where a Hindu widow who had though under the Hindu Law it is open to a widow to surrender the estate to the next reversioner even though the btter is a female heir, a widow cannot validly surrender in favour of the next female heir and a stranger jointly. Such a transaction cannot be treated as a surrender in favour of
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