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Issues: (i) Whether the daughters born from the void marriage were entitled to be treated as legitimate and to succeed to the properties of the deceased; (ii) Whether the eviction petition was maintainable and the tenant could deny the landlady's title in proceedings under the tenancy law.
Issue (i): Whether the daughters born from the void marriage were entitled to be treated as legitimate and to succeed to the properties of the deceased?
Analysis: A marriage contracted during the subsistence of a prior valid marriage was void under Section 5 read with Section 11 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. However, Section 16 of the Act confers legitimacy on children of a void marriage if they would have been legitimate had the marriage been valid. The Court held that the daughters born from such union could not be denied legitimacy and were entitled to succeed to the properties along with the surviving heir, while leaving any comprehensive title dispute open for separate adjudication.
Conclusion: Yes. The daughters were legitimate for the purpose of succession and could inherit the properties with the other heir; the broader title question was not finally decided.
Issue (ii): Whether the eviction petition was maintainable and the tenant could deny the landlady's title in proceedings under the tenancy law?
Analysis: The appellants had been inducted into possession by the original applicant and had paid rent for some time. In such a landlord-tenant relationship, Section 116 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 precludes the tenant from denying the landlord's title so long as possession has not been surrendered. The Court also held that in eviction proceedings based on default and sub-letting, the principal enquiry is the existence of the landlord-tenant relationship, and title is only incidental. On the proved facts, the original applicant could maintain the eviction petition and obtain eviction even apart from succession claims.
Conclusion: Yes. The eviction petition was maintainable, and the tenant was barred from denying the landlady's title for the purpose of eviction.
Final Conclusion: The appeal failed, the eviction order was sustained, and the substantive question of inheritance was left open beyond the limited purpose of the eviction proceedings.
Ratio Decidendi: Children of a void marriage are legitimate under Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, and in eviction proceedings a tenant in settled possession under a landlord cannot deny the landlord's title under Section 116 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872; title is not finally adjudicated in such proceedings.
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