Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1255 · Decided 15 November 2019
Rathnamma & ORS. v. Sujathamma & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1255 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 647
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3050/2010
- Decided
- 15 November 2019
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Marriage Act Section 5, 7, 11
Headnote
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - ss.5, 7 and 11 - Succession in the estate on basis of a marriage - Claim for - Plaintiff, maternal grand-daughter of defendant No.1 claimed to have married 'H' her uncle (son of defendant No.1) on 7.3.1986 - 'H' had died on daughters - Plaintiff sought share of the estate of defendant No.1, as wife of deceased 'H' - Trial court held that the plaintiff and 'H' had not attained the qualifying age at the time of registration of marriage in the office of sub-Registrar and thus,
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