Supreme Court of India

V.K. Surendra v. V.K. Thimmaiah & Ors.

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Reported as [2013] 5 S.C.R. 386
Bench G.S. Singhvi and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya JJ.
Decided 10 April 2013

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What the Court ordered

We hold that those suit schedule properties are joint family properties of Kunnaiah along with 4 sons and the co-parceners have equal shares in the properties.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Suit - Partition suit - By daughter - Claiming 1110 share in the property of her deceased father - Claiming that the property was self-acquired - The 3 sons of deceased stated that the property was ancestral - One of the sons -3 claimed a specific share in the property on the strength of a Will executed by the deceased - Trial court held that -3 was entitled to the share through th~ Will 7 1-(igty Court decreed the suit holding that the property was ancestral and the(efore the deceased and his four sons were entitled to equal share i.e. 1!5th - Thus the four sons were entitled to 11!50th

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