HOLMWOOD, CHATTERJEE
Ranjit Singh – Appellant
Versus
Kalidasi Debi – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Holmwood and Chatterjee, JJ. - The defendant No. 1 is the zemindar of a certain mouza called Kaytha now in the district of Birbhum. Defendants Nos. 2 and 3 are the patnidars and plaintiff is the dar-patnidar of the said mouza. Subsequently to the creation of these tenures the Government resumed the chowkidari chakran lands of the mouza under Bengal Act VI of 1870, and made a transfer of the same to defendant No. 1 u/s 50 of the said Act on several dates in 1898, 1899 and 1900 at a total jama of 215 rupees, and defendant No. 1 made raiyati settlements of the said lands with defendants Nos. 4 to 18 who are in possession. The plaintiff brings this suit on the allegation that the defendant No. 1 having transferred all his rights in respect of the mouza to the patnidars, and the patnidars having similarly transferred all their rights to the dar-patnidar, subject of course to the payment of the respective head rents, she as dar-patnidar was entitled to khas possession of the said lands at the jama payable to the Collector. She prays that she may recover khas possession and that proper deeds of transfer may be executed in her favour by defendant No. 1. The Subordinate Judge gave a
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