Sir John Edge.:-

This is an appeal by the defendants from a decree, dated the 18th March, 1920, of the High Court at Allahabad, which reversed a decree dated the 30th November, 1916, of the Subordinate Judge of Cawnpore, by which the suit had been dismissed.

The suit in which this appeal has arisen is a suit in which the plaintiffs claimed a decree for the proprietary possession of an eight-annas share in each of the villages of Auria (Auria Tikra) and Aurangpur Gahdewa and certain fractional shares in four other zamindary villages in the Cawn pore District by dispossession of the defen dants, who were in possession and denied the title of the plaintiffs. The Subordi nate Judge dismissed the suit the High Court on appeal gave the plaintiffs the decree for the possession which they claimed. The parties were Hindus of the Thakur Gaur caste and were subject to the law of the Mitakshara. The follow ing pedigree will sufficiently show how the parties were related, but their Lord ships do not know which of the brothers Madho Singh and Hira Singh, or of the brothers Diwan Singh and Bahadur Singh was the elder :-

The suit was brought on the 12th No vember, 1914, in the Court of the Subordi na