Supreme Court of India
Sadasivam v. K. Doraisamy
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What the Court ordered
We, therefore allow the appeals in part by setting aside the judgments and decrees passed in AS. Nos. 1507 and 1508 of 1988 arising out of O.S. No. 187 of 1985 and O.S. No. 168 of 1987 of the court of the learned Subordinate Judge, Namakkal. The appellant's half share in the joint family properties is hereby decreed after setting aside the sale deed dated 10.9.84 executed by Marappa in favour of respondent Doraisamy. There will be no order as to costs.
Judgment, Final paragraph, at p. 346
In brief
Karuppanna Gounder and his son Marappa held joint family properties. In January 1979 Karuppanna executed an unregistered will bequeathing his half share to Doraisamy, his daughter's son (also Marappa's sister's son and wife's brother), who had been brought up in the family house. In September 1984 Marappa executed a sale deed of his half share in Doraisamy's favour for Rs 19,000, said to be for discharging two pronotes of Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000; the two alleged creditors deposed as plaintiff's witnesses that they had never advanced any loan or taken any pronote, and both the sale deed and the pronotes were produced from Marappa's own custody.…
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 2 mentioned
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