The defendant is the appellant. The suit was filed to recover possession of a plot of land 52 cents ,in extent. The plaintiff is the concubine of one Mareboyina Bhavanayakudu to whom this property belonged. He had a son by name Ankalu who died issueless in the year 1930 but left a widow who is the defendant. The plaintiff’s case is that after the death of the son Ankalu the property belonged absolutely to Bhavanayakudu and he executed a deed of gift, by Exhibit P-1, to the plaintiff on 5th June, 1936. It is under this document that the plaintiff claims title to the whole of the property. On the other hand the defendant who is the daughter-in-law raised the contention that prior to the death of her husband in the year 1930, i.e., on 2nd August, 1929, there was a partition between the father and the son, in which the father got the western moiety and the son the eastern moiety; and so the defendant conceded that the plaintiff was entitled to the western moiety under the gift deed, Exhibit P-1, and claimed the eastern moiety to herself as her husband’s share. In support of the defendant’s case, she produced a document which purports to be a partition deed by which the proper