1922 Supreme(J&K) 346
RAI BAHADUR GANGA NATH
Rajab Beg – Appellant
Versus
Rathi – Respondent
Advocates Appeared:
Advocate For Appellant: Ab. Ahad
Advocate For Respondent: Nanak Chand
This is a second appeal by plaintiff arising out of a suit brought by him against the defendant respondents for possession over the land described in the plaint. The plaintiffs case was that the property in dispute belonged to Mst. Sundri his mother, and on her death which took place sometime in or about the year 1995 he succeeded to it and that mutation had been made wrongly in favour of the reversioners of Lassi Dar, the last husband of Mst. Sundri. The suit was brought against Mst. Rahti who, according to the plaintiff, was the grand daughter of Mst. Sundri and the reversioners of Lassi Dar. The suit was contested by the reversioners. They contended that Mst. Sundri had only a life interest in the property and on her death it reverted to them as reversioners of Lassi Dar. They relied on a custom under which, according to them, the widow had only a life interest and on her death the property reverted to the reversioners of the deceased husband. The trial Court found that 2 kanals and 8 marlas out of the land in dispute was acquired by Mst. Sundri as Nautor and the rest of the property belonged to Lassi Dar. It, therefore, decreed the suit in respect of Nautor (2 kanals and 8 marl
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