Kolkata Court June 1894 Judgments
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In Re: Premchand Moonshee, Deceased
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: Jun-04-1894
Reported in: (1894)ILR21Cal832
Sale, J.1. This is a suit by a legatee to obtain payment of a legacy given to her by the will of her grandfather Prem Chand Moonshee. The will gives various legacies amounting to Rs. 68,000. It also gives an annuity of Rs. 5 a month, and directs that provision be made for the maintenance of a widow, for the support of a charitable dispensary, and for the performance of certain sradh ceremonies. It then dedicates the residue of the estate for the sheba of the family thakoor and appoints three of the testator's sister's sons executors and shebaits.2. The defendants, being two of the executors, proved the will. The value of the estate as given in their petition for probate is Rs. 1,17,999-5-9.3. The plaintiff states in her plaint that, notwithstanding repeated demands, she has failed to obtain payment of the legacy from the defendants.4. The defendants in their written statement say (I) that the plaintiff is a person of unsound mind and was incapable of instituting the suit and is incapab...
Basiraddi and ors. Vs. Queen-empress
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: Jun-01-1894
Reported in: (1894)ILR21Cal827
William Comer Petheram, C.J. and Rampini, J.1. On the 17th of April last the Deputy Magistrate of Barrisal framed a charge against five persons, by which he charged them with having committed rioting on the 27th of March at Naratham, by forming an unlawful assembly, and assaulting Faisuddi and Mofizuddi, by throwing brickbats in prosecution of that common object. Witnesses were called and examined for the prosecution on the 17th and 18th, for the defence on the 25th, and on the 30th the Deputy Magistrate gave his judgment, by which he convicted four out of the five accused, and sentenced them to four months' rigorous imprisonment, and to execute bonds to keep the peace for one year. The judgment is long, rather rambling, and undoubtedly, does not, as it should have done, find what was the common object which made the assembly, of which the prisoners were members, an unlawful one, and after reading it carefully several times, I am by no means sure that I understand now what he thinks th...
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