Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 330 · Decided 6 March 2009
Yumnam Ongbi Tampha Ibemma Devi v. Yumnam Joykumar Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 330 · [2009] 4 S.C.R. 157
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1600/2009
- Decided
- 6 March 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, V.S. SIRPURKAR, A.K. GANGULY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 68, 63; Succession Act Section 63, 68
Headnote
Succession Act, 1925 - s. 63 - Evidence Act, 1872 - s. 68 • ~ Mode and manner of execution of Will - Essential ingredients- Discussed - On facts, one of the attesting witness c deposed that the testator did not sign on the Will in his presence and that witness knowing the nature of the document - His evidence did not support the due execution and attestation of Will - Genuineness of Will thus not proved. D The question which arose for consideration in the present appeal were whether the Will in question was genuine and whether the requirements of
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