1. This appeal is directed against a judgment and order dated 11.8.2000 passed by a Division Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur in MCC No. 482 of 1999 whereby and whereunder it refused to entertain an application filed by the appellants herein purporting to be under section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for short "CPC") for recalling of an order passed by a learned Single Judge of the said Court dated 5.5.1999 passed in Civil Revision No. 2761 of 1998 which in turn arose out of an order dated 3.11.1998 passed by the Additional District Judge, Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh in Civil Suit No. 2-A of 1993 dismissing an application filed by the respondent herein under Order 32 Rule 15, CPC.

2. The plaintiff-respondent filed a suit against the appellants herein for partition of certain immovable properties. Appellant 1 herein at the relevant point of time, was aged 87. Alleging inter alia that she had lost her ability to understand and further is not capable to give instructions to her lawyer or anybody else relating to the said suit, a prayer was made by the respondent herein that she be summoned in the Court so as to enable the Court to inquire about her state