Supreme Court · 1959 INSC 1 · Decided 12 January 1959
The Asiatic Steam Navigation CO., LTD. v. SUB-LT. Arabinda Chakravarti
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1959 INSC 1 · [1959] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 979
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 229/1954
- Decided
- 12 January 1959
- Bench
- SYED JAFFER IMAM, S.K. DAS, J.L. KAPUR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Specific Relief Act Section 42
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 979 no material on the record by which it can reasonably be said that the provisions of sub-s. (2) of s. 14 of the Act applied to the present case. It was urged that the act of Veeravva in adopting the second defendant was to bring in a stranger and this action of hers could to the appellant, because Illustration (f) obviously refers to a Hindu widow's estate and has no reference to a full owner. The right of a reversioner as one of the heirs under s. 42, Specific Relief Act, is limited to the question of preserving the estate of a limited owner for the benefit
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