1 Unnamalai Amrnal, Poonnammal, Dhanabakiammal one son by name Govindaraju Udayar.
In second appeal a learned single judge of the Madras High Court affirmed the judgment of the first appellate companyrt companycurring with the view taken by that companyrt that under Exh.
After my life time you, the mother of the aforesaid, shall protect them as guardian and shall give in marriage the three individual according to your wish.
Govindaraju died after attaining majority.
The companyrts below have taken divergent views as to the interpretation of that Will.
B 10, Govindaraju got an absolute estate and that estate devolved on the respondent on his death.
The trial companyrt dismissed that suit holding that she was number entitled to the suit properties under the will but the first appellate companyrt reversed the decree of the trial companyrt and decreed the suit.
After his death, the respondent sued for the possession of the suit properties on the strength of Exh.
The Official translation of the same reads as follows The Will executed on 19th Nineteen day of May, 1952 In favour of Chinnarmal, wife of Veeramuthu Udayar, Nathamar, house wife, Cudalur village, Virudhachalam Taluk by Veeramuthu Udayar, adopted son of Sadaya Udayar, Nathamar, Cultivator residing in the Cudalur Village, aforesaid Taluk, is as follows As you are my wife as I am suffering from gas trouble for the past 6 months and as I am mortal, I have executed this Will whole heartedly with good intention so as to take effect after my death.
The respondent is the widowed daughter in law of the testator.
Sometime thereafter the testator died.
That son namely Govindaraju Udayar died in 1954 leaving behind him his widow, the respondent.
He bequeathed those properties under Exh.
As mentioned earlier the will in question was executed on May 20,1932.
After my lifetime.
After my lifetime you shall pay the debts due under the deeds and you yourself shall companylect the outstandings payable to me.
This Will shall companye into force after my lifetime.
The first appellant is the widow of the testator.
Admittedly the suit properties belonged to late Veeramuthu.
The only son of the testator appears to have been a minor at the time of his death.
B 10, the Will executed by one Veeramuthu Udayar on May 20, 1932, the respondent became entitled to the suit properties.
The said Will was written in Tamil.
you shall enjoy the under mentioned properties and shall deliver possession of the same to my aforesaid minor son, Govindaraju Udayar on his attaining majority.
In case my son Govindaraju dies providentially after my lifetime and within your lifetime, you yourself shall take the properties mentioned in the Will absolutely.
The second appellant is her son in law, to whom she had assigned her interest in the suit properties.
Hegde, J. The only question for decision in this appeal by special leave is whether on a true companystruction of Exh.
