JUDGMENT

Ameer Ali, J. - Having received so much assistance from counsel on both sides in this case, from Mr. H.D. Bose, the most experienced Hindu lawyer at the Bar, for the plaintiffs, and counsel, both senior and junior for the various defendants I would have liked to consider my judgment. I do not do so because in the circumstances of this case, it is desirable that parties should have my decision before my impending departure. I state the facts only so far as may be necessary to explain the points of law which have been discussed before me This case and the two cases which follow in the list turn on the effect of an adoption made somewhere about 1850. There was a man called Ramgopal who died in 1860 leaving a very valuable estate. He had a brother Shib Kisen married to a lady Annapurna. Ramgopal had only daughters. One daughter married Shib Nath Chatterjee, and they had a son Noni Mohan. Shib Kristo and Annapurna had no male child. They therefore adopted or purported to adopt Noni Mohan. In the course of the arguments and discussing the points of law involved I used the following symbols. Shib Kristo Banerjee the adopting father is A. His wife Annapurna, the adopting mother X.