Sir John Edge :-

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs from a decree, dated the 26th June, 1917, of the High Court at Patna, which affirmed a decree, dated the 6th July, 1914, of the Subordinate Judge of Darbhanga, which had dismissed the suit.

The plaintiffs are proprietors of lands in Mouza Bullipur, Pursuram, in the district of Darbhanga, which bear the Touzi numbers 2864, 10807, 10808 and 10809, and the suit was brought on the 20th February, 1912, in the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Darbhanga to eject the defendants, S. A. Miller and Mrs. E. G. Coventry, from those lands on the ground that they were trespassers, and a decree for mesne profits as against them was claimed. S. A. Miller and Mrs. E. G. Coventry are respondents to this appeal. E. Dalgleish and W. H. Dalgleish were also defendants to the suit, but they had ceased to be interested in the lands in question in 1911, and no relief as against them was claimed, and they are not parties to this appeal. Bernard Coventry, who claimed to be interested in the lands in question under a conveyance of the 26th July, 1918, from S. A. Miller, was, on his own application to the High Court at Patna, added as a respondent to this app