DEOKI NANDAN
BISHNI DEVI – Appellant
Versus
BAHADUR SINGH – Respondent
( 1 ) THIS is a plaintiffs second appeal in a suit for injunction. Defendant-respondent Bahadur singh is the own brother of the plaintiff-appellant. The third defendant-respondent Smt. Jamuna devi is the wife of Bahadur Singh. The land in suit is agricultural. Mohan Singh, father of the plaintiff-appellant and of the defendant-respondent No. 1 was the tenure holder, when he died in april, 1968. After his death the plaintiff, who claimed to have been in possession of the land in suit, got her name mutated as the tenure holder in place of her deceased father Mohan Singh. The suit giving rise to the present second appeal was filed thereafter for an injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with her cultivatory possession over the land in suit.
( 2 ) THE trial court decreed the suit but the lower appellate court reversed that decree and dismissed the suit on the ground that although the plaintiff was in possession of the land and her name was recorded as the tenure holder after the death of Mohan Singh, yet Bahadur Singh, the defendant, was a preferential heir. The lower appellate court has held that in the circumstances bahadur Singh was entitled to a dec
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