Judgment

B. K. MUKHERJEA, J.: This appeal is directed against a judgment and decree of the Bombay High Court, dated the 31st March 1949, confirming, on appeal, the decision of the civil Judge, Senior Division, at Broach, in Special Suit No. 9 of 1941.

2. The facts of the case, though a bit long, are not a controversy at the present stage and the entire dispute between the parties centers round certain points of law relating to the rights of the reversioners, in whose favour a deed of surrender was 64 executed by a Hindu widow, to recover possession of the properties, belonging to the last male owner, during the life-time of the widow from persons who acquired title to the same by adverse possession against the widow.

3. To appreciate the contentions that have been raised by the parties before us, it will be convenient to give a brief narrative of the material facts in their chronological table given below will show at once the relationship between the parties to the present litigation.

4. One Jijibhai, whose name appears at the head of the table, had two sons. Tribhovan and Kashibhai. Tribhovan had a son named Mathurbhai who died in 1924 leaving, behind him, his widow Hirabai and a son