P&H: Rejects Plea Of Oral Family Settlement And “Partial Partition”; Restores Trial Decree Granting Partition
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has allowed two second appeals and restored a trial court decree directing partition of a joint residential property, setting aside the lower appellate court’s dismissal.
The dispute concerns property that originally belonged to Jora Singh and later fell to the share of his son Ami Lal. Daya Ram, claiming a 1/16th share as a co‑sharer, sought partition by metes and bounds and separate possession. While the trial court decreed the suit, the lower appellate court reversed it, accepting the defendants’ objections that the suit was a “partial partition” and that the property had already...
