Mr. Ameer Ali:-

The litigation which has given rise to this appeal relates to the property of one Ram Narain, a Hindu inhabitant of Chunar belonging to the Agarwala caste, who is stated to have died at Mirzapore on the 30th November, 1912, under circumstances to which reference will be made later. Ram Narain had a brother named Lachmi Narain, who had predeceased him, on the 25th October 1911, leaving three sons who are plaintiffs in this suit and appellants before the Board. Ram Narain on his death left him surviving, besides his nephews (the brother's sons), a niece (a sister's daughter) and her three sons all of whom are defendants to the action and respondents on the appeal. It is also in evidence that one of the sons of Ram Narain's sister is still alive.

As already indicated, the contest is between the nephews of Ram Narain on one side and his sister's daughter and her three sons on the other.

After Ram Narain's death there were certain mutation proceedings in the Revenue Courts, and Baisakha, the niece, succeeded in obtaining an order for the registration of her name in the Revenue Register on the strength of a will alleged to have been executed in her favour by Ram Narain two o