( 1 ) THIS second appeal has been preferred by Suraj Singh and his son Rameshwar Dayal who were defendants Nos. 2 and 3 in a suit for specific performance of an agreement dated January 17, 1967 for the sale of some agricultural plots situate in village Khajuri-Al-liyarpur in Tahsil mawara, District Meerut said to have been executed in favour of the plaintiffs by one Awan singh who was impleaded as defendant No. 1 in the suit but is a respondent in this appeal. The iiird Additional Civil Judge, Meerut, who tried the suit, granted a decree as prayed for by the plaintiffs. The Additional District Judge, Meerut before whom that decree was challenged in appeal by the present appellants affirmed the decree of the trial Judge. Under the decree, the sale deed was to be executed by the defendants in favour of the two plaintiffs and the present appellants, who were in possession of the land, were required to transfer it to the plaintiffs. Feeling aggrieved, these two defendants have come to this Court.

( 2 ) THE plaintiff alleged that through an agreement dated January 17, 1967, the first defendant contracted to convey the plots in question to them for a consideration of R