Kolkata Court March 1937 Judgments
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In Re: Rajani Kanta Padia, Minor
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: Mar-03-1937
Reported in: 174Ind.Cas.785
ORDERMcNair, J.1. This is an application by the father of a Guzerati boy for the restoration to him of his child, and that the respondent to the application, Mrs. Thompson, should be committed to prison for contempt of Court. The notice of motion also asks that the provisions of an order made by the Court of Appeal may be set aside. The matter has been before this Court on several occasions, and on this occasion, has been heard by us on three or four different days. The child in question was born in February 1928, so that he is now 9 years old. His mother died in childbirth, and the respondent to this application cared for the child for some time with the father's concurrence, it is the common case of both sides that the child has only learned English. In 1935, differences between the petitioner and the respondent first came before this Court, the respondent refusing to make over the child to its natural father. The matter was heard by me, and I appointed the father the guardian of the...
inland Revenue Commissioners Vs. Lawrence, Graham and Co.
Court: Kolkata
Decided on: Mar-03-1937
Reported in: [1938]6ITR691(Cal)
LORD WRIGHT, M.R. - Romer, L.J., will deliver the judgment of the Court.ROMER, L.J., - This appeal comes before comes before us in the following circumstances : By a mortgage dated January 13, 1925, a reversionary interest was assigned to the Legal and General Assurance Society (hereinafter referred to as 'the society) to secure a sum of Pounds 10,000. The deed contained a covenant by the mortgagor to repay the sum advanced and also a covenant to pay half yearly such a rate of interest thereon that after deduction of income tax from each periodical payment there would remain a net sum equivalent to interest for the same period on the principal money for the time being ruminating due at the rate of 5 1/2 per cent. per annum, reducible on punctual payment of 4 1/2 per cent. The mortgage also provided in Clause 5 (B) that in case before the death of the survivor of the two life tenants (therein named), on whose deaths the reversions were expectant 'any interest on the principal money here...
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