JUDGMENT

Asutosh Mookerjee, J. - This appeal is directed against the grant of Letters of Administration, with a copy of the Will annexed, to the estate of one Raj Krishna Khan who died on the 20th November 1917. He was born in 1897 and in 1914 was married to a girl twelve years old. At the time of his death, he left him surviving his mother, his minor widow and an infant brother. He was a member of the well-known family of Khans of Mankundu of the District of Hooghly and possessed properties of considerable value. He had taken to evil ways very early and was addicted to wine and women; for six or seven years before his death, he had kept a woman of the name of Sosilabala whom he did not abandon even after his marriage. On the 4th November 1917, he went to Puri for a change; the party consisted of five persons besides himself, namely, his manager, Bibhnti Bhusan Mukerjee, his mistress, Susila, another woman of the name of Puti, who apparently cooked for them, a hanger-on of the name of Binod and a sarvant Bipatram Kahar, who had been in his employ for about a year and a half, Raj Krishna had been to Puri in the year previous and had stayed in the house of one Krishna Chandra Guchika,