1997 (1) TMI 525

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....ted against the judgment dated 13th March, 1986 passed by the Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Letters Patent Appeal No. 134 of 1980. The said Letters Patent Appeal arose out of the judgment dated 23rd April, 1979 in A.S. No. 29 of 1977. The appellants before this Court are the heirs of the defendant No.4 in O.S. No.10 of 1973 filed in the Court of the learned Single Judge Par....

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....e the Division Bench under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent. Such appeal has been allowed by the impugned judgment and the Division Bench has held that all the four deed of gifts which were executed by Gowramma were declared void and it was not open for the donees under the said deeds to claim any title. The suit was therefore decree by the Division Bench. Mr. Ram Kumar, the learned counsel appe....

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...., the family arrangement is not to be discarded on technical grounds. Family arrangements are governed by a special equity peculiar to themselves, and will be enforced, if honestly made, although they have not been meant as compromise, but have proceeded from an error of all parties, originating in mistake or ignorance of fact as to on what their rights actually depend. It has also been indicated ....

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.... learned Single Judge. It however appears to us that previously between the parties another suit was instituted in the Court of the learned Subordinate Judge Srikakulam being original suit No.50 of 1954. In the said suit, the validity of the deed of gifts made by Sowaramma was questioned. It was held by the learned Subordinate Judge that the said deed of gifts were not valid under the Hindu Law....