JUDGMENT

Stuart, J. - This appeal raises some interesting points. It relates to rights to officiate as pujaris at the temple of Sitla at Farahampur Kalesharman. Farahampur Kalesharman is a small place close to Kara in the Allahabad District. Kara is the head quarters of a Tehsil and was once a place of importance. The temple in question is of some antiquity. The learned Munsif who heard the original suit stated in his judgment that according to the Allahabad Gazetteer this temple was four thousand years old. 1 have been unable to trace a quotation that the temple is four thousand years old, but it is referred to at page 87 of the Gazetteer as one of the old temples in the district and it is a place where three fairs are held every year to which a large number of persons go. It is established on the facts that connected with the temple are certain families of mails and it is found on facts that for very many years certain families of malts who are Hindus and certain families of malts who are Muhammadans, have both officiated as pujaris in this temple which is undoubtedly a Hindu temple. The lower Courts have gone on to find that they have so officiated without any real objection bein