Judgement

In this case the appeal was brought from a decree of the Civil Court of Madura, dated the 27th of December, 1847, by which the Respondents father, Gowery Taver, the son of Oya Taver, was held entitled to the Zemindary of Shivagunga, as heir to the Appellants [@ page M.I.A. 540] father, Gowery Vallabha Taver, in preference to Anga Moottoo Natchiar, the surviving widow of the latter, on the ground that Appellants father and his elder brother, Oya Taver, were undivided brothers. The appeal also embraced the decrees of the Sudder Adawlut Court at Madras, dated the 19th of April, 1852, the 5th of November, 1859, the 3rd of March, 1860, and the decree of the Civil Court of Madura, of the 25th of August, 1859, in which it was held that the Appellant, claiming as heir in remainder after the death of the surviving widow, Anga, Moottoo Natchiar, was not entitled either to appeal from the decree of the 27th of December, 1847, or to prosecute a new suit to recover the Zemindary.

The property claimed comprised the Zemindary of Shivagunga,. a Zemindary of very great value, situate in the District of Madura in the Presidency of Madras, together with other property and mesne profits to a