Supreme Court of India · 2017-08-04
U. Manjunath Rao vs U. Chandrashekar
- Citation / case number
- AIR 2017 SUPREME COURT 3591
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Petitioner
- U. Manjunath Rao
- Respondent
- U. Chandrashekar
- Author
- Dipak Misra
- Bench
- A.M. Khanwilkar, Dipak Misra
Judgment text excerpt
The Supreme Court examined the High Court's dismissal of an appeal concerning a partition deed under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC). The Court found that the High Court failed to adequately consider the evidence regarding the existence of a joint family and the validity of the partition deed, which was claimed to contain an error in property description. The Court held that the High Court's judgment lacked sufficient reasoning and directed it to re-evaluate the appeal with proper consideration of the evidence presented.