JUDGMENT

Mitter, J. - This is an appeal by the plaintiffs and arises out of a suit for redemption of a mortgage executed by the predecessor of the plaintiffs in favour of the predecessors of defendants 1 to 12, so far back as the year 1852.

2. The three short genealogical trees given below will show who the mortgagees and their successors-in-interest are, as also who the mortgagors and their successors-in-interest are respectively. It is essential that we should have those trees before us in order to understand the questions in controversy in this appeal, more particularly as the heirs of the mortgagees have also succeeded to certain shares in the equity of redemption in the disputed properties.

     (1)                   Kanu = Khatija                                 |                        |--------                      Feda Gazi                        |                     Asad Ali                        |                   |----                  Sons             Daughter                   |                   |                   ---------------------                             |                         Plaintiffs.                             |     (2)   Paran married Khatija (wid