Supreme Court of India

Profulla Chorone Requitte & Ors. v. Satya Chorone Requitte

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Reported as [1979] 3 S.C.R. 431
Bench R. S. Sarkaria and V. D. Tulzapurkar JJ.
Decided 2 March 1979

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we allow the defendant's appeal (Civil Appeal No. 1874 of 1970), set aside the judgment of the High Court, and dismiss the plaintiffs' suit.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Interpretation of Wills-Common ancestor of plaintiffs and defendant! created absolute debutter of his house in favour of family deity-By two wills devised and bequeathed the house to the trustees for service and lvorship of the deity-Shebaiti rights-Whether vested in trustees or descendants of the testator. The common ancestor of the plaintiffs and the defendant owned a big residential house (the suit property) In which he had his fumily deity. By hvo wills-one dated June 4, 1898 in respect of his properties in British lndia and another, dated June 6, 1898 in respect of the house property in

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 mentioned

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