Chennai Court February 1944 Judgments

Gullipilli Ramulu and ors. Vs. Kokku Venkatasubba Rao and ors.

Court: Chennai

Reported in: AIR1944Mad554

Horwill, J.1. Plaintiff 1 was desirous of acquiring a house site belonging to defendants l to 7, a family of Mahomedans. The father was dead. Defendant 2 is the mother. Defendants l and 3 are sons, defendant l being the elder. Defendants 4 to 7 are daughters. Defendant l, purporting to act on behalf of the whole family, entered into an agreement, Ex. G, to convey certain property; and on 10th May 1934, a registered sale deed (Ex. G-l) was executed by all the adult members of the family, purporting to act on behalf of themselves and the minors, defendants 4 to 7. The plaintiff says that owing to the insistence of the municipality on a margin around the property being left for passages, he found that the area conveyed to him was insufficient for his purposes. So he entered into negotiations with the major members of the family for the conveyance of a further area of land. On 2nd October 1934, Ex. A was drawn up, by which defendants 1 and 3 purported to agree to the conveyance of the area...