High Courts

Noor Muhammad Sahib and Others vs Karim Bibi Ammal and Others

Madras High Court · Decided on 28 July 1914 · Citation: (1914) 27 MLJ 270

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1.

The Lower Courts seem to have rightly held that a suit for possession of the mosque properties could not be maintained by the worshippers in

their individual or collective capacity as that principle of law seems to be derivable from the observations in Srinivasa Aiyangar v. Srinivasa Swami

ILR (1892) M. 31 Kamaraju v. Asanali Sheriff ILR (1899) M. 99 and Dasandhay v. Muhamad Abu Nasar ILR (1911) A. 660.

2.

The plaintiffs have not established that by Muhammadan Law the worshippers as a body can be collective muttawallees of the plaint Mosque

and we are further unable to hold that the suit is brought by the plaintiffs in this case as trustees and not as merely belonging to and representing the

community of worshippers. We dismiss the second appeal with costs.