Judgement

Appeal from a judgment and decree of the High Court (April 19, 1910) reversing a judgment and decree of the Subordinate Judge of Mozufferpur (December 21, 1907).

Under circumstances which are fully stated in the judgment of their Lordships the appellants instituted a suit in the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Mozufferpur against the first respondent, to whom probate of the will of one Bachu Singh had been granted by the District Judge of Mozufferpur under the Probate and Administration Act (V. of 1881), and against the two widows of Bachu Singh. The appellants by their plaint alleged that the will was a forgery, and prayed for a declaration that they were next reversioners to the estate upon the deaths of the widows, and that they were, as such, entitled to apply to the Court having probate jurisdiction for revocation of the probate. The appellants had opposed the grant of probate, claiming to be next reversioners, but the District Judge had held that they were not next reversioners and had no locus standi; this decision and the grant of probate were affirmed upon appeal to the High Court.

Ramnandan Singh, by his written statement in the present suit, again denied that