Supreme Court of India

Ningawwa v. Byrappa & 3 Ors.

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Reported as [1968] 2 S.C.R. 797
Bench J. C. Shah and V. Ramaswami JJ.
Decided 17 January 1968

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What the Court ordered

We hold that this appeal must be allowed and the appellant must be granted a decree that the gift deed, Ex. 45 is not binding on her so far as plob 91 and 92 of Lingadahalli village are concerned and she is further entitled to recover possession of the said two plots frnm the defendant­ respontlents with mesne profits.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Indian Limitation Act (9 of 1908), Arts. 91 and 95-Suit to set aside. gift deed on grounds of undue inffuence and fraud-Period of limitation and starting point for lbnitation. . .In 1938, the appellant executed a gift deed df four plots of land-two in village T and two in village L in favour of her husband. At that time the appellant was young and illiterate and her husband was in a position to dominate her will, and she believed that the document related only to the plots in villagt T which were originally the property of the husband. The properties in village L were inherited by the

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