Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 715 · Decided 9 July 1996
SMT. Mithlesh Kumari and ANR. v. Thakur Sheo Saran Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 715 · [1996] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 287
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1114/1975
- Decided
- 9 July 1996
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, SUJATA V. MANOHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 11
Headnote
Civil Procedure Code, 1908-Section 11-Res judicata-P1inciple-Ap­ plicability of A B An estate known as Partapner Raj, at a point of time was owned by C Raja S. The estate known to be an impartible one was governed by the rule of lineal primogeniture. The Raja had five sons, Rs, HS, MS, AS and eldest son, RS and then downwards for generations upto Raja HS. Raja HS died in 1925, leaving behind a mother Rani B, a step mother by the name Rani Rand an adopted minor son, Raja M. Raja M was taken to have succeeded D to the Partapner Raj. He was killed while unmarried and a minor. On the
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