Judgement

Appeal from a decree of the High Court (June 22, 1894) reversing a decree of the Subordinate Judge of Khulna (May 17, 1892) and dismissing the appellants suit.

The suit was brought on May 24, 1887, against the Mitter defendants and related to the possession and ownership of certain chucks or plots of land which the appellant claimed as constituting her mouzah Uttar Kulati (alias Doorgapore), and which were formerly recorded as Estate No. 44 of the rent-roll of the Collector of Jessore, and afterwards placed in the rent-roll of the Collectorate of Khulna as Estate No. 134.

The respondents claimed that the lands formed part and parcel of their village called Bil Pabla.

The appellant relied on a survey map made by Government officials in 1856, according to which the disputed chucks formed a separate mouzah of Uttar Kulati, and alleged an uninterrupted possession thereof by her husband and herself, which she contended constituted an indefeasible title in her by adverse possession. She further alleged that the Mitter defendants unjustly obtained possession under a magistrates order dated August 31, 1885, and she prayed that that order might be set aside and possession of the d