Supreme Court · 1967 INSC 17 · Decided 23 January 1967
V Alliammai Achi v. Nagappa Chettiar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1967 INSC 17 · [1967] 2 S.C.R. 448
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 806/1964
- Decided
- 23 January 1967
- Bench
- K.N. WANCHOO, R.S. BACHAWAT, J.M. SHELAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act; Succession Act Section 180
Headnote
ll Hhrilll Law-Joint family property bequeathed by will-Effect on character of property. Indian Succession A.ct, (39 of 1925) s. lS~Scope of el!ction under. A Hindu died after making 4 will in respect of certain joint family properties and appointed bis son as the executor. The son obtllioed pro- possessiOn of the residue of the property. Thereafter, be adopted the plaiotl1f. The adoptive father died after Ute Hindu Succession Act came iolo force and the plaintiff filed the suit claiming two-thirds share of the properties left by his father. The defendants (viz .. the widow and mother
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