( 1 ) THIS is an appeal from an order of a District Judge granting a succession certificate to the respondent. There is no dispute about the facts. The appellant is the widow of Jhunnoo Lal, while the respondent is the widow of his brother Mannu Lal. In 1948 Jhunnoo Lal took an insurance policy from the Hindustan Co-operative Insurance Society Ltd. , for Rs. 5,000. 00. According to its terms the Company promised to pay the amount of Rs. 5,000. 00 on Jhunnoo Lals surviving the 10th April of the year immediately preceding the expiry of thirty years from the date of the commencement of the insurance, or, off his prior death, to him, or "his Nominees, executors, Administrators, Assigns or other Representatives, as the case may be," subject to proofs being given of the title of the claimants to the policy. Under Section 39 of the Insurance act the assured nominated Mannu Lal as his nominee. Thus under the policy, the Insurance Company bound itself to pay Rs. 5,000. 00 to the assured) if the remained alive for thirty years, and to Mannu Lal, if he died before completing thirty years. He died within a short period leaving Mannu Lal, and the appellant, his widow. Before the in