Behari Lal Mallik vs Priya Nath Sardar And Ors. on 24 March, 1914
4. As regards the third contention, we are unable to appreciate the argument that there has been a severance of joint tenancy amongst the landlords, because one or more of them has acted in collusion with the tenant. Reliance has been placed upon a familiar class of cases, of which the decisions in Panchanan Banerji v. Raj Kumar Guha 19 C. 610; Matungini Dassi v. Ram Das 7 C.W.N. 93, Sailendra Nath v. Karali Charn Singh 2 C.L.J. 534 and Bhabatarini Dasi v. Ekabbar Malita 5 C.L.J. 235 : 2 M.L.T. 155 may be taken as examples" which it was held that where a tenant has agreed to allow one of several co-sharer landlords to deal with him as if that co-sharer was his sole landlord, without regard to the interest of the other co-sharers, the effect is to create a separate tenancy under such a fractional co-sharer so as to render Section 188 inapplicable.