DUTTA, J.—This second appeal is directed against the judgment and decree of the learned District Judge, Jodhpur, dated 8th July, 1966, by which the two appeals Nos. 25 of 1962 and 137 of 1962, filed by the defendants against the preliminary decree and the final decree passed in a suit for redemption by the Additional Civil Judge, Jodhpur, were dismissed with costs and the cross-objections filed by Sardar Mal and his son Sujan Mal were partly accepted and the amount of mesne profits at the rate of Rs.60/*, p. m. with effect from the date of final decree till the date of the judgment of the learned District Judge, was added in the decree as payable by the defendants to the plaintiffs.

2. The relevant facts giving rise to the suit for redemption, out of which this appeal arises, may be described as follows—

Sardar Mal and his son Sujan Mal filed a suit for redemption of a shop in dispute situated in Sire Bazar, Jodhpur, on the basis of a mortgage-deed (Ex. 25) executed by Mst. Bugi widow of Ladu Ram in favour of Chunni Lal Baheti on Falgun Sudi 10 Samvat-year 1957 (28.2.1901). The suit was filed against Manak Lal and Moti Lal sons of Gianni Lal and their mother Mst. Dhapi Bai alias Tuls

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