Court : Chennai
Reported in : (1882)ILR5Mad223
Innes, J.1. The suit was brought to remove first defendant from the management of certain temples to which he had been appointed manager by fourth, fifth, and sixth defendants and to the management of . which plaintiffs claimed an hereditary right.2. The other members of first defendant's family were not made parties, nor was there any indication that first defendant was sued in any other than his individual capacity for what was his single act of assuming management of the temples under the authority of the fourth, fifth, and sixth defendants.3. The decree contains nothing from which it can be inferred that it was intended to render any member of first defendant's family but himself liable, and the appellant as representative of the first defendant can only be held liable to satisfy the decree to the extent of any assets of first defendant that have come to his hands and not been properly accounted for. The interest possessed by first defendant in his lifetime in the family property s...
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