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17. In the case of Hukumchand v. Raja Ran Bahadur Singh, AIR 1919 Pat 146 the title to Parasnadi hill was In dispute between two parties while the matter was pending in appeal. The Sitambari Community of Jains represented by one Mani Bhai wanted to purchase whatever interests both the parties to the litigation had over the hill subject to the result of the appeal. The Court accorded its sanction to such transfer and one party executed a deed of sale and the other a permanent lease in favour of the transferee. A compromise petition by the parties had been filed in which it was provided that all questions of ownership and possession of the respective parties should remain undetermined between the parties though they would transfer, one by conveyance and the other by a permanent lease, their right, title and interest in Parasnath hill to the representative of the Sitambaris. In the deed of conveyance, the purchaser covenanted to take all necessary steps to get his name substituted in place of the Raja of Palganaj (transferor) as respondent in the appeal and he had his own right to defend the action and indemnify the vendor and the Paliganf estate against all costs and damages arising out of the litigation after the 1st January 1918.