JUDGMENT

1. This appeal is connected with First Appeal No. 124 of 1919, as the mortgage which is the subject matter of this suit is also the. subject matter of the other suit. The facts may be briefly stated:

One Bhagirath Singh died in the year 1880 leaving a widow Musammat Pran Kunwar. He had property, a 5-biswas share in Mauza Mabmudpur-Jamalpur, Mahal Bhagirath Singh and a 3 biswas 2-biswansis odd share in Mahal Ghair Khastgaran of the same village. The present revenues of these two properties are Rs. 530 and Rs. 593-7. What the revenues wore in the year 1880 is not stated. The widow Pran Kunwar remained in possession of the estate until the year 1886, when she died. She was succeeded by her daughter Musammat Durga Kunwar, who was the wife of one Balwant Singh and the mother of the defendant-appellant before us Bhup Singh, Musammat Durga Kunwar had two sons and two daughters. The elder son Ram Singh died in January 1917. The present suit was instituted on the 19th day of August 1918. It is a suit brought by mortgagees on the basis of a mortgage-deed dated 5th June 1912 for a sum of Rs. 5,200. The property which had come to Musammat Durga Kunwar from her father Bhagirath Singh was