Mumbai Court June 1886 Judgments

Nanabhai Ganpatrav Dhairyavan Vs. Janardhan Vasudev and Ramabai

Court: Mumbai

Reported in: (1888)ILR12Bom110

Farran, J.1. The parties to this suit are Hindus of the Prabhu caste, and the object of the plaint, as stated in its prayer, is to obtain a declaration (1) that the plaintiff, as the father and natural guardian of his daughter Sonabai, is solely entitled to her custody, and to keep her under his immediate care and protection; (2) that the defendants, or either of them, are or is not entitled to give the said Sonabai in marriage to Anandrav Dadaji, or any other person, without the assent of the plaintiff; and an order that the defendants, or either of them, may be decreed to deliver up the custody of the said Sonabai to the plaintiff. The plaint also prayed that the defendants might be restrained by injunction from solemnizing the intended marriage of the said Sonabai with the said Anandrav Dadaji, or with any other person, without the plaintiffs assent.2. The facts are practically admitted, and are these:3. In the Christian year 1869 the plaintiff was married to the defendant Ramabai, ...