Lal Bahadur vs Kanhaia Lal on 8 February, 1907
5. Their Lordships call attention to the fact that the person ere spoken of as having ancestral property "in his hands" was the Karta. Down to 1890 Ram Narain was not the Karta. After that date he was. The decision, therefore, applies in strictness to the present case only from that date. Further, in that case the father was the Karta and not, as in the present case, a brother. But in the facts to be presently stated their Lordships find that the decision has a very close application to the present case.