Judgement

Consolidated Appeals, six being from a judgment and decrees of the Court of the Judicial Commissioner, Central Provinces (July 28, 1914), reversing decrees of the District Judge, Wardha, and the residue being from judgments and decrees of the Court of the Judicial Commissioner affirming decrees of the Court of the Divisional Judge, Nagpur Division, which reversed decrees of the District Judge.

The sole question for determination in the consolidated appeals was whether one Saraswati Bai had been the absolute owner of two mauzas, Bidhi and Chikni, situate in the Wardha district of the Central Provinces, and entitled to alienate them. The facts appear from the judgement of their Lordships.

The twenty-two suits giving rise to the present consolidated appeals were instituted in 1910 and 1911 in the Court of the District Judge, Wardha. The plaintiffs in eleven of the suits were the two surviving sons and the minor grandson of Saraswati; in the remaining suits purchasers from them were the plaintiffs. The defendants were persons who, as alienees from Saraswati, were in possession of different portions of the villages.

The plaintiffs alleged by their plaints that Bapuji, the dece