G.N. Ray, J.

This appeal is directed against the judgment and decree passed by the learned Judge, 10th Bench City Civil Court, Calcutta in Ejectment Suit No. 979 of 1977. The plaintiff respondent instituted the said Title Suit for eviction of the defendants appellants from the disputed premises at 12, Badur Bagan Lane, P.S. Amherst Street in the city of Calcutta on the ground of reasonable requirement of the disputed premises by the plaintiff and the members of her family and also on the ground of default in payment of rent. The case of the plaintiff respondent was, inter alia, that she became the landlady of the disputed premise, on account of her purchase of the said property and by letter of attornment she informed the original tenant Shri Aswini Kumar Ghose about her title to the property and thereafter the said tenant Aswini Kumar Ghose paid rents to the plaintiff. After the death of the said tenant, the son and the daughter of Aswini Kumar Ghose namely the defendants appellants by two separate letters informed the plaintiff that in view of the death of the said Aswini Ghose, the original tenant, they became tenant in respect of the premises and rent receipt should be i