Privy Council Court March 1931 Judgments

Gulzari Lal Vs. the Collector of Etah

Court: Privy Council

Lord Blanesburgh: This is an appeal from a decree of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, dated 17th December 1926, varying preliminary and final decrees of the Court of the District Judge of Aligarh. Those three decrees were passed in a suit for the administration of what was alleged, and what each Court has found to be a trust for public purposes of a charitable nature. The appellant and his co-defendant, Kesri Chand, were the surviving trustees of the trust, and in the suit a claim was made against the appellant for Rs. 1,33,000 of its funds, said to have been misappropriated by him. The plaintiff also sought to have the appellant removed from his position as trustee and to have a scheme promulgated for the future administration of the trust. The preliminary decree of the District Court directed the appellant to be so removed. It ordered him to account for the trust property which had come into his hands. It propounded a scheme for the future administration of the trust and or...