UMA PANDEY Vs. PURSHOTTAM AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THESE are two connected appeals from the judgment and order dated 18th of February, 1959 of Mr. Justice Vishnu Datta.

(2.) THE appeals arise from two suits filed by Smt. Suraj Mukhi, the mother of the present Respondents, against two sets of Defendants who are the Appellants in these two connected appeals before us. Smt. Suraj Mukhi died during the pendency of the present litigation and the present Respondents were brought on record as her legal representatives.

(3.) THE defence inter alia was that the Defendants were tenants of the plots in dispute, that the decrees in question were not obtained by fraud or misrepresentation and were binding on the parties and that the suits were not cognizable by the civil court.