{"id":48836,"date":"1879-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1879-01-11T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/surbomungola-dabee-vs-mohendronath-nath-and-anr-on-12-january-1879"},"modified":"2017-12-31T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T10:35:18","slug":"surbomungola-dabee-vs-mohendronath-nath-and-anr-on-12-january-1879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/surbomungola-dabee-vs-mohendronath-nath-and-anr-on-12-january-1879","title":{"rendered":"Surbomungola Dabee vs Mohendronath Nath And Anr. on 12 January, 1879"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Calcutta High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Surbomungola Dabee vs Mohendronath Nath And Anr. on 12 January, 1879<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1879) ILR 4 Cal 508<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: White<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: White<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>White, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. Declare that the trust for the erection of a bathing-ghaut and temples is void for uncertainty; that the residue of the testator&#8217;s property is undisposed of; and that the plaintiff, as sole heiress of the testator, is, as such, entitled to the whole of his property after payment of his debts. Usual administration accounts. The Court Receiver to take possession of the testator&#8217;s property, to convert such as does not consist of money or Government securities into money and invest the whole in Government securities. Power to dispose of the property, by private contract or public sale. Costs of all parties up to decree to be paid out of the estate on scale No. 2. Reserve further directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta High Court Surbomungola Dabee vs Mohendronath Nath And Anr. on 12 January, 1879 Equivalent citations: (1879) ILR 4 Cal 508 Author: White Bench: White JUDGMENT White, J. 1. Declare that the trust for the erection of a bathing-ghaut and temples is void for uncertainty; that the residue of the testator&#8217;s property is undisposed of; [&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-48836","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 v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Surbomungola Dabee vs Mohendronath Nath And Anr. on 12 January, 1879 - 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\/surbomungola-dabee-vs-mohendronath-nath-and-anr-on-12-january-1879\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Surbomungola Dabee vs Mohendronath Nath And Anr. on 12 January, 1879 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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