Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 192 · Decided 6 December 1983
SMT. Sarabati DEVI. & ANR. v. SMT. Usha Devi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 192 · [1984] 1 S.C.R. 992
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 96/1972
- Decided
- 6 December 1983
- Bench
- E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, R.B. MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Constitution Article 136; Hindu Succession Act; Succession Act
Headnote
B SMT. sARABATI DEVI. & ANR. v. SMT; USHA DEVI • December 6, 1983 (E. S. VENKATARAMIAH AND R. B .. MISRA, JJ,) Insurance Act, 1938 (Act IV of 193/f), Section 39-Assured of a .life insurance pO/icy dies intestate leaving be}iind him his mother, his widow, and a·ton, bUt for the received llnder the policy to the · e:xcl~sion of the heirs o{ the assuP.ed. I The appellants being n1other and son of. one Jagmohan Swarup who was governed by the Hindu Sqceession .Act, 1956 and who died intestate on June 15, 1967 filed Civil Suit No. 122 of 1970 on the file of the first
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