Raghubar Dayal J, RAGHUBAR DAYAL. J.-These appeals, by special leave, against the orders of the Board of Revenue, Utter Pradesh, arise in the following circumstances: The a ppllants presented applications against each set of the respondents in these six appeals ·under s.175, U.P. Tenancy Act, I939 U.P. XVII of 1939, hereinafter called the Act, for ejectment stating that they were the sir-holders of the land occupied by the respondents as non-occupancy tenants and that the period of five years during which the respondents were entitled to retain possession under s.20 of the Act had expired. The respondents contested the notice of ejectment alleging ihat the land in suit was not sir, that the appellants were not sir-holders, that appellants paid local rate exceeding Rs. 25/-in the United Provinces, Agra and Oudh, and held more than 50 acres of sir land. They claimed to be hereditary tenants of the land in dispute, in accorda1>ce with ss. 14, 15 and 16 of the Act. The paper were thereafter forwarded by the Tehsilder to the Assistant Collector in charge of the aub-division, in accordance with the provisions of s. 179 of the Act
