Dareppa Alagouda vs Mallappa Shivalingappa on 13 March, 1946
Our attention was also drawn to Dareppa Alagouda v. Mallappa Shivalingappa, AIR 1947 Bom 307, and Yeshwantrao Sabnis v. Bhalchandrarao, AIR 1952 Madh-B 207, where similar observations were made, and it was said, that a legal representative must continue the litigation on the cause of action sued upon and cannot set up a new and individual right. He can take up any plea which may be appropriate to his character as legal representative, but he cannot take up a new and inconsistent plea, or, a plea contrary to the one taken by the deceased. Nor can he take any plea which was not open to the deceased defendant himself. The above observations are true so far as they go, but are no guide to a case like the present. The distinguishing features of this case are, that the legal representative as an intermeddler cannot prosecute the appeal, because the right to sue die not survive to her. In her own right she was neither an heir nor had any power to contest the alienation.