JUDGMENT

1. The facts of this case are somewhat unusual and our decision is based on the facts as found by the lower Appellate Court.

2. It appears that one Nathwa, a separated Hindu, possessing ample means, died in November, 1919.

3. The suit was brought by four persons, who claimed to be the next reversioners of Nathwa, and it was filed on the 6th of January 1920. The plaint, after reciting that Nathwa died childless two months before, stated that he left surviving him two widows, Musammat Amin Kunwar and Musammat Hardei, who were entitled to a life-estate in the property and that the plain tiffs were the next reversioners. The plaint goes on to say that on the 1st of March 1916, Musammat Amin Kunwar persuaded Nathwa to execute a fictitious deed of mortgage in favour of Lakhi and Suraj Mal, her two nephews, defendants Nos. 1 and 2; that this bond is calculated to prejudice the rights of the plaintiffs if it is allowed to subsist. Musammat Amin Kunwar was in collusion with defendants Nos. 1 and 2, and Musammat Hardei refused to join as a plaintiff and so was made a defendant. The prayer was "that it may be declared that the bond dated the 1st of March, 1916, executed in favour of Lakhi and Suraj Mal, is null and void and ineffectual as against the plaintiffs and the property hypothecated." Musammat Hardei did not appear and has taken no part in the litigation. Lakhi and Suraj Mal. in their written statement contested the suit on the ground (1) that the plaint'ffs were not reversioners and (2) that the bond had been lawfully executed for a real debt and that they had already instituted a suit on the 6th of January, 1920 (the very day on which the plaintiffs instituted this suit), to recover the money due to them on the mortgage-bond. They denied that Musammat Hardei was a widow of Nathwa Musammat Amin Kunwar put in a similar defence denying that she had instigated Nathwa to execute the mortgage. She also denied that Musammat Hardei was a widow of Nathwa.

4. The Courts below have found, and the finding is conclusive in second appeal, that Nathwa was a separated Hindu possessed of ample means and that the plaintiffs are the next reversioners They also found that Lakhi and Suraj Mal, the defendants Nos. 1 and 2, were near relations of Musammat Amin Kunwar and were living in great poverty in another village. As evidence of this it was found that in order to Satisfy a petty debt they had to give up a small occupancy holding which they had, and, in execution of a decree for about Rs. too had to sell their home. Musammat Am in Kunwar had brought them to live with her and had persuaded Nathwa to execute this document in their favour.

5. The document was executed for a consideration of Rs. 4,000 of which Rs. 1,500 was said to be due on a previous mortgage made by Nathwa in favour of Lakhi and Suraj Mal The deed further recited that the balance of the money was required to construct a well, purchase bullocks and buffaloes, and to meet the expenses of a karao marriage. In the words of the Trial Court: "All necessities known to ordinary laymen were pressed into service." The Courts below found that Nathwa was in no need of money as he was carrying on a successful banking business and was possessed of ample zamindari property, that he was 60 years of age and already had two wives; so that there was no foundation for the allegation that he wished to contract a third karao marriage. Having found that Nathwa had no occasion whatsoever to borrow money, it was found that the defendants could not possibly have advanced any money at all to Nathwa on the occasion of this bond or previously. In fact they found that Musammat Amin Kunwar had persuaded her husband to execute this fictitious bond in order to benefit her nephews. They also found that Musammat Amin Kunwar was acting in collusion with Lakhi and Suraj Mal, and this fact was corroborated up to the hilt by the circumstance that, on their suit for sale on the mortgage, she had confessed judgment a