JUDGEMENT

Appeal (No. 60 of 1939), by leave of the Madras High Court, from an order of that court (November 5, 1937), dismissing the appellants application that a writ of certiorari should issue to the Board of Revenue at Madras to bring up, in order to be quashed, an order made by the Collective Board (October 9» *936) under s. 172 of the Madras Estates Land Act, 1908.

The -following facts are taken from the judgment of the Judicial Committee The appellants were ryots of three villages included in the Parlakimedi estate, in the district of Ganjam in the Northern Circars. The respondents were (1.) the Zemindar of Parlakimedi, and (2.) the Board of Revenue at Madras. The Governor-General in Council was represented as amicus curiae.

In October, 1925, the Zemindar applied, under ch. XI. of the Madras Estates Land Act, for the settlement of rent in respect of those villages, and by a supplemental application in March, 1926 (which was inspired by a decision just previously given by the High Court of Madras in Valluri Narasimha Rao v. Ryots of Peddamatnidipalli (( 1925) I. L. R. 49 M. 499.)), he applied for settlement of a " fair and equitable rent" under s. 168, sub-s. 1, of the Act. Th