RANAWAT, J. :- This is an application under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India against the judgment of the Rajasthan Board of Revenue dated the 6th of October 1955, dismissing an appeal filed by the petitioner and upholding the judgment of the Additional Commissioner, Jaipur, of the 1st November 1954, by which he held that the suit brought by the petitioner in the Court of the Assistant Collector, Jaipur, was barred by the general principles of res judicata.

2. The facts leading to this petition are as follows :

3. The petitioner, Hanuman Prasad, made an application under S. 7 of the Rajasthan (Protection of Tenants) Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as the Ordinance) to the Anti-Ejectment Officer of Jaipur, which was allowed on the 29th January 1953, and he was ordered to be reinstated. A revision petition was filed in the Court of the Board of Revenue against the said order of the Anti-Ejectment Officer and it was allowed and the order of reinstatement was set aside on the ground that the petitioner Hanuman Prasad had failed to prove that he was a tenant. It was, therefore, held that he was not entitled to any relief under the Ordinance. Hanuman Prasad then filed a reg