Judgement

Consolidated Appeals from a judgment and four decrees of the High Court (July 11, 1910) reversing two decrees and varying two further decrees of the First Subordinate Judge of Gaya.

The appellants instituted a suit against each of the four sets of respondents in the present consolidated appeals to recover specified parcels of land. The first two appellants claimed as the sons and heirs of Hanuman Sahai, who died in 1906. They alleged that Hanuman Sahai had purchased the properties in suit from the reversionary heirs thereto upon the death, in 1894, of Mahasundar, who was his maternal grandmother. The third appellant, Mahesh Lai, had purchased a half share of the properties from the first two appellants. The respondents claimed the properties under kobalas (sale deeds) executed by Mahasundar.

Two of the consolidated appeals had been compromised subsequently to the judgment of the High Court. The two appeals now contested were the second and the third on the record. The second appeal related to a half share in the village of Amhara, which the respondent (defendant). Mahant Thok Narayan, claimed under a kobala executed in 1880 in favour of his predecessor by Mahasundar Hanum