1. This is an appeal against the decree passed by Judge Tulzapurkar on 8th October, 1956, in Civil Suit No. 293 of 1956 on the file of the Bombay City Civil Court. Shree Ambarnath Mills Corporation are a partnership consisting of three partners; (1) Rai Bahadur Kunwar Raj Nath, (2) Shaligram Khanna and (3) Pesumal Atalrai Sha-hani. All the three partners of the firm are displaced persons who migrated to India as a result of the Partition in 1947. We will hereafter collectively refer to the three partners of Shree Ambarnath Mills Corporation as "the plaintiffs". The plaintiffs carry on business in Bombay. Prior to 1947 Messrs. Ahmed Abdul Karim Bros. Ltd.. was carrying on business as manufacturers of textiles and bobbins. The properties of that Company consisted of three factories with bungalows and chawls at Ambarnath in the district of Thana, a Bobbin factory at Tardeo in Bombay and the goodwill and other benefits of the business. These properties were notified as evacuee property under a notification, dated 12th September, 1951, issued by the Assistant Custodian of Evacuee Property, and in consequence thereof the properties become vested in the Custodian of Evacuee Prop