JESA Vs. KUMBHA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an appeal by Jesa and Taru defendants against the judgment and decree of the Senior Civil Judge, Ganganagar, by which the suit brought by Kumbha plaintiff was decreed.

(2.) THE case of the plaintiff was briefly this. He claimed to be the descendant of one Sheoram and set out the pedigree in the plaint which was not in dispute. The relevant portion of that pedigree for our purposes is as below: - -

(3.) THE suit was resisted by both Jesa and Taru. Their case was that there was no such custom as was pleaded by the plaintiff and that according to Hindu Law, Taru remained in the family of Pusa after the adoption of his father Jesa and was thus entitled to succeed to the property of Pusa and Lachhman, being the nearest descendant of both.