Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 139 · Decided 9 August 1974
Surendra Pal & ORS. v. Saraswati Arora & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 139 · [1975] 1 S.C.R. 687
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1153/1971
- Decided
- 9 August 1974
- Bench
- P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, A. ALAGIRISWAMI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 111, 103
Headnote
Will-Bequest of entire property in favour of second wife to th_e exclusion· of children by the first wife and mother of testator-Presumption of undue" influence, if can be drawn . In April, 1959, the testator's wife died leaving behind four daughters and a son. Two of the daughters in affluent circumstances. The son' was not living with his father at the time of his death and the other two daughters · were living with the brother. The relations between father on the one hand, and the son (the first appellant) and the two daughters on the other, were strained
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