Supreme Court of India
Vathsala Manickavasagam & Ors. v. N. Ganesan & Anr.
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We are of the considered view that the Trial Court was fully justified in holding that all the three items of the suit scheduled properties, were joint family properties, in which the plaintiffs and the first respondent were entitled for equal share.
Judgment, page 19
From the headnote
CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 1908: s. 96 - First appeal - Suit for partition decreed by trial court holding the suit properties as joint family properties relying on the statement made by first defendant in a letter as admissible - High Court reversed the judgment without 0 examining implications of the said letter - Held: Non consideration of the letter by the Division Bench of the High Court, would certainly amount to total misreading of the evidence, while interfering with the judgment of the trial court - Similarly, the Division Bench miserably failed to examine the issue relating to gift as
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