( 1 ) THESE are two connected revision cases from orders of an appellate Court made in proceedings for fixation of standard rent.

( 2 ) P. C. Guha, the petnr. in Civil Revision Case No. 1372 of 1950 was a tenant of two rooms together with a bath and kitchen in premises known as 15-A Lindsay Street. He became a tenant on 1/6/1946 at a monthly rental of Rs. 55. 00. This rent was increased in October, 1947 to Rs. 66-8-0 and further increased in December 1948 to Rs. 68-9-0. It was said that the rent payable for these premises on 1/12/1941 was Rs. 55. 00 per month.

( 3 ) THE opposite party landlord made an application to the Rent Controller for fixation of the standard rent of these premises contending that the standard rent should be Rs. 200. 00 per month. The tenant filed objections and on 5/12/1949 the Rent Controller fixed the standard rent at Rs. 160-14-0 and directed that that rent should take effect from the month of July 1949.

( 4 ) THE petitioner preferred an appeal to the Chief Judge of the Court of Small Causes Calcutta, on 3-1-1950 and by an order dated 5-8-1950 a learned Small Cause Court Judge, Shri U. N. Majumdar, to whom the appeal had been transferred