AMOL RATTAN SINGH, J.

This is the second appeal of the plaintiffs who had filed a suit seeking a decree of declaration to the effect that they have become owners in possession of the suit land measuring 4 bighas 15 biswas falling in khewat no.1668/575, khatauni no.2139, khasra no.3255/694 min, situated in Patiala, Tehsil and District Patiala, by way of adverse possession and therefore the 9 defendants (some of whom are respondents herein, as chose to appear in response to the notice issued in this second appeal, now represented by their legal representatives) have no right or interest in it.

2. The facts, as taken from the judgments of the learned courts below, are that the plaintiffs had contended that khasra no.694, measuring 6 bighas and 19 biswas, was previously owned by Maharaja Yadvindra Singh of Patiala, and that the predecessor-in-interest of the 7 plaintiffs, i.e. father of plaintiffs no.1 to 6 and husband of plaintiff no.7, Sewa Singh, was in cultivating possession of the land as his tenant.

The land is stated to have been eventually declared to be surplus in the hands of Maharaja Yadvindra Singh and was allotted to one Pritam Singh of village Mana Khagtan on 18.02