Supreme Court · 1965 INSC 191 · Decided 23 September 1965
Sri Sarangadevar Peria Matam and Another v. Ramaswamy Gounder (Dead) BY Legal Representatives
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1965 INSC 191 · [1966] 1 S.C.R. 908
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 544/1963
- Decided
- 23 September 1965
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, J.R. MUDHOLKAR, R.S. BACHAWAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Limitation Act Section 144
Headnote
Indian Limitafwn Act (9 of 1908), s. 28 and Art. 144--Absence of legally appointed mathadhipathi-Right of mL:.th to recover e1klowed property--Slarting point of litni!al..ion. The mathadhipathi of the apj)C!lant nu1h granted a perpetual lease of the math properties, at a fixed rent to the but \vithout any legal ncccso;;ity, lbe malhaJipalhi died in 1915. From 1~15 there w:!s only a de facto manager of the moith for 20 years. In 1939, the present mathadhipatlu was elected and in 1950 the math obtained possession of the properiics. Since 1915 the respondent and his predecessors did
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