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1. This is an appeal from the appellate decree passed by the District Judge, Nasik, confirming the order of the Subordinate Judge at Nasik in Regular Darkhast No. 247 of 1930 of the last Court.

2. In the suit Dwarkabai kom Govinda claimed that her husband had been adopted by the widow of Ramkrishna Gopal Bhat Ware, to whom two-thirds of the property in suit had belonged. The defendants compromised the claim by recognising her husband's title as the adopted son of Ramkrishna and allowed her a half share in the suit property and rents from 1923 to 1927 and in the rents for future years until equitable partition of the property. Thereupon a compromise decree was passed in those terms on September 10, 1927. She made no attempt to execute the decree and in the same year became a convert to Muhammadanism, and she married a Muhammadan in 1928. Thereafter the present darkhast was filed by Lakshmlibai widow of Hari Gopat Ware, who is Dwarkabai's first husband's uncle's widow and who claims to be Govinda's reversioner. She claims that on Dwarkabai's remarriage after conversion she is entitled to inherit Govinda's property under the provisions-of Section 2 of Act XV of 1856.