MODI, J.—This is a regular second appeal by the defendant Narsingh Das in a suit for rendition of accounts.

2. The material facts may be shortly stated as follows. The suit out of which the present appeal arises was brought by the plaintiff Bhairon Dan on the allegations that there was a firm in the name of Bhairon Dan Madangopal which did business in cloth at Calcutta and that the defendant No. 1 Narsinghdas and the plaintiff and defendants Nos. 4 and 5 were its partners. Defendants Nos. 2 and 3 were the sons of Narsinghdas and were members of a joint Hindu trading family consisting of themselves and their father Narsinghdas. It was further alleged that the plaintiff had 4-1/2 annas shares in this partnership business, defendants Nos. 4 and 5 held 3-1/2 annas share therein each and defendant No. 1 Narsingh Das held 4 annas share, and the remaining half anna share was to go to charity. This partnership, according to the plaintiff, was a partnership at will and had commenced its business on Smt. 1991 Asoj Sudi 1, and it was dissolved on Chait Sudi 9, Smt. 2005 when the parties made up their accounts obviously provisionally and decided that no further business would be done and that w

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