JUDGMENT

Cecil Brett and N.R. Chatterjea, JJ. - This is an appeal against an order passed, by the District Judge of Dacca on the 18th September 1909 refusing an application made by the present appellant for the removal of Sarat Sundari Dassi from the administration of the estate of Chaitan Krishna Poddar. It appears that the appellant and Sarat Sundari Dassi are related to each other as adopted son and adoptive mother, and that letters, of administration to the estate of Chaitan Krishna Poddar were granted to them after the death of the widow of Chaitan Krishna, in whose favour as the first beneficiary, under the will letters of administration had previously been granted. There was some difference of opinion between the parties at first, and, on the 31st August 1903, a compromise was arrived at and join administration was granted to both. On the 26th May 1909, tie petitioner made an application to the Court which contained several allegations against Sarat Sundari Dassi. Amongst them one was that she had taken hatchittas from various debtors to the estate during the time when she was the sole administratrix, and that those hatchittas had been taken in her name only. It was asked tha