( 1 ) THIS Civil Revision Application arises under the following circumstances:-

( 2 ) A suit was filed in the Court of the Civil Judge Jr. Dn. Rajkot in connection with certain property. The parties at the trial of that suit rested content with leading oral evidence only and no documentary evi- dence was led. The defendants pleaded that on an exchange of lands which had come about through certain official proceedings of the then Gondal State the property in question had come to the ancestors of the defendants. No attempt appears to have been made by the parties to lead any evidence regarding the records of Gondal State before the learned trial Judge. The learned trial Judge decreed the plaintiffs suit purely on appreciation of the oral evidence that had been led before him. Against this decision the defendants went in appeal and two applications were presented by different defendants one being Ex. 11 before the appellate Court and the other being Ex. 14 before the appellate Court asking the appellate Court to take on record documentary evidence in the shape of certified copies of the records of the previous Gondal State and of the Political Agency in connection with