Judgement

Consolidated Appeals (No.39 of 1939) from a judgment and three decrees of the High Court (October 30, 1935), which set aside a decree of the Subordinate Judge of Cawnpore (January 2, 1932), and dismissed the plaintiffs suit as against all the present respondents.

The following facts are taken from the judgment of the Judicial Committee The appellants were the plaintiffs. The first appellant claimed the properties in suit as the nearest reversioner of one Pohkar Singh, deceased; and the second appellant was a transferee of half of the properties from the first appellant. Stated generally, the respondents all derived their title directly or indirectly from the transfers of the property made by Musammat Gambhiri, the wife of Pohkar Singh, who survived him and died in 1919. The following pedigree, set out in the plaint, explains the

relationship of the principal parties—

BADRI SINGH

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Pohkar Singh (died 1900) = Gambhiri Kunwar Koklat Singh

alias Parbati, widow (died 1919). |

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| Ga jra j Singh

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Ram Pian Man Kunwar Indramati Kunwar Bishun Singh

daughter (died childless before died childless. Plaintiff No. 1.

(died 1915 1895)

childless) married Gauri

married