MODI, J.— This is a defendants civil regular first appeal in a suit for declaration and possession.

2. The dispute relates to the estate of one Puranmal. It is common ground between the parties that the said Puranmal died without any male issue of his own, and had three daughters born to him, namely, Msts. Durga, Gulkandi and Dhapoo. The first of these died some time in 1950. The other two are appellants defendants before us. Apart from these two, the other two appellants are Ram Chander and Badri Prasad, father and son, in whose favour Msts. Durga and Gulkandi sold two shops belonging to their father by a registered sale-deed (Ex P-C) dated the 21st February, 1946, for a sum of Rs. 4500/-.

3. The plaintiff respondent Prahlads case was that he had been adopted as a son by Puranmal by a registered deed of adoption (Ex. PA) dated the 23rd Jan., 1938, and as a result thereof succeeded to the entire estate left by his adoptive father who had admittedly died on the 4th February, 1938. It may also be stated here that Mst. Durga on behalf of herself and as guardian of Prahlad, who was minor at the time, had made a mortgage of one of the shops in favour of one Ram Dayal, who is defendant res

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