This defendants second appeal is from the judgment and decree of the District Judge, Manipur dismissing the appeal and upholding the trial Courts judgment decreeing the suit.

2. The present respondent, Shri Onhen Kuki, Chief of Chalva Village, instituted Original Suit No. 7 of 1971 impleading the present appellants Shri Chitui Naga, Gangbura of Tamah village stating that the plaintiffs village as well as the defendants village are old villages and there was and still now exists boundary line called Govakom alias Sonobuh nullah which is also called Charenggiu by the Nagas and that the scheduled land belonged to his villagers and the defendant illegally and without authority prevented his villagers from cutting fire-wood and threatened them claiming the land to have belonged to the defendants village, Tamah; with a prayer for declaration that the plaintiff is the owner of the land as given in the schedule to the plaint; and for any other relief/reliefs as the Court deems proper.

3. The defendant in his written statement denied the plaintiffs averments and claimed the land to have belonged to his village, a fact which, according to him, was earlier decided in Civil Case No. 7