JUDGMENT :

S.K. Ray, J. - Both these applications have been heard together as they are interconnected.

2. Two co-sharer intermediaries filed two separate claim cases under Sections 6, 7 and 8-A of the Orissa Estates Abolition Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act) for determination of fair and equitable rent in respect of plot Nos. 71, 72 and 73 appertaining to nijchas khata No. 28 and in respect of plot No. 82 appertaining to nizjot khata No. 29 along with other plots with which we are not concerned. The claim case by one intermediary was numbered as 51/12 of 1950 from which an appeal was carried by the opposite party to the A.D.M. Cuttack in Orissa Estates Abolition Appeal No. 13/63-64. The decision of this appeal is subject matter of O.J.C. No. 1091/69. The other claim case was numbered as 13/50 which was also subject matter of the Orissa Estates Abolition Appeal No. 15 of 1963-64. The decision of this appeal is subject matter of O.J.C. 1113 of 1969. As both the appeals Nos. 13 and 15 of 1963-64 were heard analogously the aforesaid two writ applications have also been ordered to be heard together.

3. The facts may now be stated. One parent touzi No. 3847 belonged to three co-shar