1891 (11) TMI 1

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....t of the Deputy Commissioner of Hoshangabad, in which he has obtained decree against the Respondents as widows and heirs of Khushal, a zemindar, who died in 1878. He was survived by three widows, Mussamut Deo, the senior, who died in January, 1881, and the Respondents, Mussumat Nandu and Mussumat Sheo, who are Defendants in the Court below. 2. The action was laid upon a bond dated the 7th of Nove....

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.... the senior widow duly executed the bond, because it is her intelligent signature, in the capacity of a Hindu widow representing the estate, which alone could give validity to such a document. 3. The Deputy Commissioner found in favour of the Appellant on the third issue; but the case was taken by appeal to the Court of the Commissioner, Narbudda Division, who found on that issue for the Responde....

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....v. Run Bahadoor Singh Law Rep. 8 Ind. Ap. 8. 4. The case was appealed to the Judicial Commissioner, who expressed an opinion--their Lordships do not think he meant to pronounce any finding--upon this point. He said: " I may add, however, that it appears to me very probable not only that ML Deo did put her seal to this bond, but also quite understood what she was about." It has now been ....