JUDGMENT - 1. The Petitioner Mrs. Julieta Coutinho has filed this Petition in this Courts general and inherent jurisdiction for an order that the petitioner may be appointed guardian of the right, title and interest of the two respondents, who are minors, in the property at Eksar and that the Petitioner as such guardian may be authorised to sell the said immovable property on the terms and conditions of an agreement of sale dated 31st January 1960 and for certain other consequential reliefs. One Ciriaco Bernardo Coutinho died on 3rd May 1951 leaving the Petitioner who is his widow and four children, two of whom are now majors and the other two, being the two respondents in this petition, who are minors. The parties are Indian Christians and are governed by the Indian Succession Act. The said deceased has left no will. He left a small immovable property situated at Eksar which is within the Greater Bombay. That property consists of an open plot of land admeasuring 1964 square yards and is the only property left by him. The parties being governed by the Indian Succession Act, the widow lias a one-third share and the two minors are each entitled to a one-fourth of the remaining two-th

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