JUDGMENT

Iqbal Ahmad, J. - This appeal and Second Appeals Nos. 1447 and 1448 of 1924 arise out of three suits for ejectment filed in the revenue Court by the. plaintiffs-respondents under S. 58 of the Agra Tenancy Act (2 of 1901). Babu Mahabir Prasad Singh, Plaintiff No. 1, claimed to be the fixed rate tenant of the plots in dispute, and Chaudhari Sat Narain Singh, Plaintiff No. 2, was a transferee of a portion of the holdings in dispute in each of the three suits. Jagdamba Singh and his minor son Jokhu Singh were arrayed as Defendants Nos. 1 and 2 respectively in each of the three suits, on the allegation that they were the sub-tenants of the plaintiffs. Jagdamba Prasad Singh admitted the plaintiffs' claim, but contended that his son Jokhu Singh was never in cultivatory possession of the holdings in dispute in each of the three suits, and was unnecessarily made a party to those suits.

2. The plaintiff also impleaded as Defendant No. 3 Har Shankar Singh, Badri Narain Singh and Adit Narain Singh in the three suits respectively on the allegation that they were cultivating as tenants (dar shikmi) of the sub-tenants.

3. The contest in all the three suits was between the plaintiffs and Def