{"id":220741,"date":"1877-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1877-04-09T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/choonee-lall-vs-bhimul-doss-alias-lall-baboo-on-10-april-1877"},"modified":"2018-04-08T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T04:26:54","slug":"choonee-lall-vs-bhimul-doss-alias-lall-baboo-on-10-april-1877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/choonee-lall-vs-bhimul-doss-alias-lall-baboo-on-10-april-1877","title":{"rendered":"Choonee Lall vs Bhimul Doss Alias Lall Baboo on 10 April, 1877"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Calcutta High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Choonee Lall vs Bhimul Doss Alias Lall Baboo on 10 April, 1877<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1877) ILR 2 Cal 379<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: R Garth<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: R Garth, Kemp, Macpherson, Markby, Ainslie<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Richard Garth, C.J.<\/p>\n<p>1. This case raises precisely the same question which was decided by a Full Bench of the Allahabad High Court in the case of Delhi Parshad v. Thakur Dial I.L.R. 1 All. 105 and we feel bound, having regard to the weight of authority, to decide in accordances with that decision, that, under the circumstances stated in the case, the interest of the deceased brother in the family property ought, in the event of a partition, to be divided between his nephew and his two brothers in equal shares.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. This point was distinctly decided by the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut in the year 1802 in the case of Duljeet Singh v. Sheomunook Sing 1 Sel. Rep. 59 and Mr. Colebrooke was one of the Judges who decided it. The same rule has been laid clown since by other authorities, and is recognized by the Lords of the Privy Council in the case of Katama Natchiar v. The liajah of Shivagunga 9 Moore&#8217;s T.A. 539 at p. 611.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. We do not find any authority conflicting expressly with those decisions; and we are, therefore, of opinion that the judgment of the Lower Court is right, and that this special appeal should be dismissed with costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta High Court Choonee Lall vs Bhimul Doss Alias Lall Baboo on 10 April, 1877 Equivalent citations: (1877) ILR 2 Cal 379 Author: R Garth Bench: R Garth, Kemp, Macpherson, Markby, Ainslie JUDGMENT Richard Garth, C.J. 1. This case raises precisely the same question which was decided by a Full Bench of the Allahabad High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calcutta-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Choonee Lall vs Bhimul Doss Alias Lall Baboo on 10 April, 1877 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/choonee-lall-vs-bhimul-doss-alias-lall-baboo-on-10-april-1877\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Choonee Lall vs Bhimul Doss Alias Lall Baboo on 10 April, 1877 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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