Kolkata Court August 1937 Judgments

Ramendra Prosad Basu and ors. Vs. Baradaprosad Basu and ors.

Court: Kolkata

Reported in: AIR1938Cal206

M.C. Ghose, J.1. This is an appeal by the defendants in a suit for declaration of title and recovery of possession of a house in Pabna town described in Sch, Ka and a piece of garden land in the town described in Schedule Kha to the plaint. The plaintiff Barada Prosad Bose was a pleader of Pabna District Court; he joined the Bar in 1893. The three defendants are his sons by his first wife Sailabala who died in 1913. The house in dispute stands on a piece of land of which the plaintiff got permanent lease from a landlord client. The lease was in his own name and on the land he built the house in suit in the years 1901-1904. The house was built in the name of his wife Sailabala. Even the bricks were struck with her own initials S. B. and the house being finished was named Sailadham. In the Municipal register, the house stood in her name and in two documents, one a security bond in favour of the District Judge and another an application for a loan to a Bank of which the plaintiff was one ...