Debts Father "- Personal debt by father, who was a junior member of coparcenary Sons are liable, when debt is not immoral - Father's undivided share including the shares of his sons can be sold Sons need not be - parties- Partition suit by execution purchaser.

Supreme Court of India

Sidheshwar Mukherjee vs Bhubneshwar Prasad Narainsingh ... on 5 October, 1953

Equivalent citations: 
1953 AIR 487, 1954 SCR 177

Author: B Mukherjea
Bench: Mukherjea, B.K.

AIR 1953 SUPREME COURT 487
SUPREME COURT
(From Patna: AIR 1949 Pat 309)
MEHR CHAND MAHAJAN, J., B. K. MUKHERJEA, J. and B. JAGANNADHADAS, J.Civil Appeals Nos. 53 to 55 of 1951, D/-5-10-1953

Sidheshwar Mukherjee v. Bhubneshwar Prasad Narain Singh and others

(A) Hindu law - Joint family - Debts Father "- Personal debt by father, who was a junior member of coparcenary Sons are liable, when debt is not immoral - Father's undivided share including the shares of his sons can be sold Sons need not be - parties- Partition suit by execution purchaser - Son's right to challenge their liability on ground of immorality of debt.AIR 1949 Patna 309, Reversed.

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