JUDGMENT

Mukerji, J. - The facts of the case briefly are these: In 1900 there was an auction sale of a certain property and it was purchased in the name of a lady, Mt. Gobindi. The property was subject to a usufructuary mortgage for the sum of Rs. 450, so that what was sold was the mortgagor's right in the property. The purchaser did not get possession because the possession was with the mortgagee, Mir Imdad All. The respondents' father Banwari Lal claims that the real purchaser was Hira Lal, his son. Gobindi was a sister to Hira Lai's wife and was living with Hira Lai. Gobindi's name continued in the village papers till 1911, about which time, it appears, Gobindi died. Hira Lai's son Suraj Prasad instituted a suit for possession on redemption of the property-and was successful in 1916, when hejpaid the sum of Rs. 450 and redeemed the property and took possession of it.

2. After the death of Suraj Prasad his son Hanuman Prasad succeeded to his property. He however died shortly after and Mt. Jaikali, his mother, succeeded to the property. On the death of Mt. Jaikali, Banwari Lal, as the next heir of Hanuman Prasad, claimed the property. There was a tussle in the Mutation Department an