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P.Padmanabhan   30 June 2015

Who is to produce a will and mark it in evidence ?

vanakkam , respected lawyers in India. 

I have an ongoing trial in a partition  suit. An issue has has arisen-  Two  Wills need to be proved by the vendees/defendants 2-7 of the suit property having taken the whole by same from the vendor/1st defendant , a lady and wife of theelder brother of the 1st plaintiff.  The vendor/D1 filed very elaborate written statement  Her claims are that her father in law  under the Will dated 16-04-1969 bequeathed e whole of the suit property  to her husband /first son of the father-in-law Her husband  by another Will   dated 16-03-1989 bequeathed  the same to her and she sold the suit property in six separate portions each by individual sale document  to the vendess /Defendants .

The 1st  plaintiff claim of common half share in the suit property  is based on a release document executed and registered on 16-06-1945  whereunder the executant father released  in favour fo his two sons his  common 1/3 right in the joint family properties placed in schedule ‘B’  of the release document and in consideration the two sons  placed in the hands of the father and the mother an item of joint family property  shown in ‘A’ schedule of the release document  item  of for enjoyment  for their lives of father and mother without creating any encumbrances on the property  and after the mother’s life enjoyment the property would devolve  on both sons equally.

But the father wrote a Will on 16-04-1969 and bequeathed the whole of ‘A’ schedule property to his first son, husband of D1/Vendor, contrary to the terms of 1965 release document . The first son bequeathed  the same property by his Will dated 16-03-1989  to his wife / D1 and  died soon after registration of the Will.  D1 in turn  sold the property in 1993 to the vendess/D2-07 .

The plaintiff ignored the sales to D2-7 and fled the suit for partition  and speared possession of the property based on the 16-061945 release document. But when the trial opened- she never came forth to prove her  averments  in written statement. She and her legal heirs D8.9 and 10 chose to be ex parte .D2-7 were allowed by Court to prove their title by proving the title of the vendor. That is the D2-7 purchasers need to prove the two Wills of the years 1969 and 1989 aforesaid. How are the to prove them under law?

Learned  advocates kindly out for the  ur propositions in this regard with authorities. Any case law to show that where proving a Will is issue, the propounder must first examinean attestor of the Will u/S68 of IEA?

Thank you sirs.

P.Padmanabhan , advocate at 01:22 am ist on 30th june 2015

 



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