The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday June 10 1901

Their Lordships wete of opinion that there ought to be no costs of the first hearing but that the Secretary of State ought to pay the costs of the appeal to the Chief Court of the Punjab and the costs of this appeal and their Lordships would advise His Majesty accordingly." Mr. [...] Pending the suit the adopted son died and hiS widow the abovenAmed Kishmish Koer was substtuted as Defendant and continues as party to the suit: Both the said Sub-J Age and a Division Bench_ of the Calcutta High Court decided against the adotion and the reversioners the Petitioners \fere sucessful in both Courts in the suit. [...] decided as follows:— "The present suit is for the recovery of the assets which were paid over to Phul Chand on the ground that although the decree of the Respondent was based on a bond subsequent in point of time to that upon which the Appellants' decree was based the incumbrance of the subsequent bond was in reality an incumbrance created by a bond of May 1883 and therefore prior in point of ti [...] against the D.efemktotts upon the bond alleging that the Defendant iliprodas Mukerjee defileated the moneys of the firm to the e xtent of Its. [...] 105 or I06 of the Bengal Tenancy Act but the Revenue Officerl in disposing of tlse case did not adopt " the procedure laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure for the trial of suits.'' On appeal to the District' Judge he held on the authority of the case of Dstroa Nazi iVobin Krishna Chowdhrain; (I.