BALA GOURI VALLABHA TEVAR Vs. ZEMINDAR OF SHIVAGANGA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS case appears to their Lordships to be a very simple one. The Appellant contends that by a fraud alleged to have been committed in the years 1802 and 1803 by Gouri Vallabha Tevar, a sunnud appointing him zemindar of Shivaganga was granted to him by the Government in 1803, whereas it should have been granted to his elder brother Woya Tevar. But Gouri Vallabha Tevar entered upon the zemindari at that time, and he and his descendants have enjoyed it ever since.

(2.) IT is quite clear that there could have been no secrecy about his appointment to be zemindar. The matter was the subject of public proclamation, and Woya Tevar must have known, and all his descendants must have known, that the sunnud granting the zemindari was in the name of Gouri Vallabha Tevar, and that the zemindari was actually occupied and enjoyed by Gouri Vallabha Tevar and his descendants.