Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 12 · Decided 12 January 1972
Talkeshwari Devi v. Ram Ran Bikat Prasad Singh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 12 · [1972] 3 S.C.R. 71
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 213/1967
- Decided
- 12 January 1972
- Bench
- K.S. HEGDE, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, D.G. PALEKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Succession Act Section 124, 131
Headnote
Indian Succession Act 1925-Ss. 124, 131-Scope-Will, construc­ tion of. By clause 4 of a will the testator bequeathed to his grand daughters T and S an absolute right in the properties that were to devolve on them after the death of his wife. Clause 5 further provided that if one of the two grand daughter was to enter into possession of the entire pro- C perty as absolute owner. After the death of the testator's wife T and S divided the properties which devolved on them in equal shares. On S dying issueless T instituted a 1uit for poasession of the properties that fell to the
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