Judgement

Appeal (No. 35 of 1922) from a judgment and decree of the Chief Court (December 24, 1917) affirming a decree of the senior Subordinate Judge of Amritsar.

The suit was brought by the appellant in 1914 against the respondents. By her plaint she alleged that her deceased husband (who died in 1905) and his three brothers had formed a joint Hindu family, but that there had been a disruption of the joint family in 1876, when the eldest brother had separated, that since that date the other brothers (the respondents) carried on business as

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partners, and that upon her husbands death she had been admitted a partner. She sued for dissolution of the partnership, and for possession of a third of the partnership property.

The facts, and the effect of the judgments in the lower Courts, appear from the judgment of the Judicial Committee.

1923. April 17, 19. De Gruyther K.C. and Dube for the appellant. Abdul Majid for the respondents.

May 15. The judgment of their Lordships was delivered by

LORD DUNEDIN. In 1876 four brothers, Ishar Das, Harbhagwan, Rup Chand and Day a Ram, lived as a joint Hindu family and carried on a family