JUDGMENT

N.R. Chatterjee, J. - This appeal arises out of a suit for recovery of possession of the Jheria Raj, an impartible estate on declaration of the plaintiff's right by inheritance thereto.

2. The last male owner was Raja Durga Prasad Singh and the 3 plaintiffs are his widows. Raja Durga Prasad was the grandson of Raja Udit, and the defendant Was the grandson of Nanda Kishore. Raja Udit, Nanda Kishore, and Brojo Lal were the sons of Raja Sangram.

3. The plaintiff's ease, shortly stated, was that Nanda Kishore and Brojo Lal (and their branches) were entirely separate in food, worship and estate from their elder brother, Raja Udit and his successors, that the Jheria estate thus being the separate estate of Raja Durga Prosad, the plaintiffs were (or the Plaintiff No. 1 as the senior widow was) entitled to it, and all the plaintiffs were entitled to the self-acquisitions of their husband, that the plaintiffs were victims of fraud and conspiracy, and that certain documents bantannamas and an am-muktearnamah, upon which a consent decree was passed, were obtained from them by the defendant by fraud and misrepresentation, the plaintiffs having had no independent' advice in the matter, an