Supreme Court of India

Hukumchand Gulabchand Jain v. Fulchand Lakhmichand Jain and Others

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Reported as [1965] 3 S.C.R. 91
Bench K. Subba Rao J.
Decided 16 February 1965

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What the Court ordered

We hold that G it has not been proved that these funds had been used in business and that therefore the appellant is not liable to pay compound in­ terest on the balance of the trust funds with his father or himself.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Public Trusts-Trustee-Liability to pay interest on trust funds­Rule of damdupat-Applicability. · The respondents who were interested in a public temple filed a suit against the appellant who was looking after the affairs of the temple. They prayed for his removal from possession of the trust pro­ perties, for the rendering by him of true and faithful accounts and for the framing of a scheme. The trial court held that the appellant was liable to render accounts. Having ascertained the amount of prin­ cipal, it determined the interest payable at an amount equal to that of the principal on the

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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