JUDGMENT - N.K. PAREKH, J.:---Being aggrieved by an order and judgement dated the 29th September, 1978, passed by the Assistant Judge, Satara in Civil Appeal No. 112 of 1974, the appellants have filed the present appeal.

2. The facts that lead to this appeal are that one Vasudeo Kulkarni had two wives, one being Gangubai and the other being Yashodabai. The said Gangubai had no issues. She adopted one Ramchandra as her son. Yashodabai, however, had one issue who was named Indubai. The said Vasudeo died in 1919. He also left behind him some property including the suit property. However, in view of some family disputes that arose, the said Yashodabai was constrained to file a suit being Civil Suit No. 265 of 1926. In the said suit, a decree came to be passed, inter alia allotting the suit property to the said Yashodabai, and granting her a limited interest therein as an owner, but only for the purposes of her maintenance. After the passing of the said decree, the said Yashodabai inducted tenants in the said suit land, being one Namdeo Bhau Sonawale and Ramchandra Dasharath Mahar. However, the said Ramchandra V. Kulkarni i.e. the stepson of the said Yashodabai) by a deed of sal

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