Judgement

Consolidated Appeals from a judgment and two decrees of the High Court (June 15, 1915) affirming and reversing respectively decrees of the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Shahjahanpur.

The two suits out of which the consolidated appeals arose were instituted by the appellant and his brother under circumstances which fully appear from the judgment of their Lordships. The plaintiffs by their plaints claimed that upon the death of Ram Dei in 1912 they were entitled, under the Mitakshara law, to inherit the entire estate left by her husband, Bahadur Lal, who died in 1883.

The sole question arising upon the appeals was whether the appellants claim was precluded by a compromise of a family dispute in 1892 and the appellants acts thereunder.

The High Court, affirming the decree of the trial judge in one suit and reversing the decree of a different trial judge in the other suit, held that the appellant was so precluded.

1918. Feb. 19, 21. De Gruyther, K.C., and Dube, for the appellant. The compromise did not affect the appellants right to claim as reversioner. He was not competent in Hindu law to deal in anyway with-his right in expectancy Sumsuddin Goolam Husein v. Abdul Husei