Judgment

JAGANMOHAN REDDY, J.: - This appeal is by special leave against the judgment and decree of the High Court of Kerala which dismissed an appeal against the judgment and decree of the Subordinate Court of Mavalikarat The appellant had filed a nut on October 24, 1942, for the recovery of Rs. 2 lakhs and interest thereon from the date of the suit and for costs originally against the State of Travancore now the State of Kerala-the respondent-and three others who however were not made parties in apt peal before the High Court. It was alleged in the plaint that the plaintiff (appellant) was wrongfully dispossessed from 160 acres of land along with the improvements which had been effected by him and as the State had appropriated those improvements without any right or title thereto he claimed the value of those improvements. was the appellant s case that he had been in occupation of the said 160 acres of Cherikkal land (unregistered dry lands in hilly tracts) about which and the adjoining lands there was a dispute as to whether the same belonged to a jenmi family known as Koodalvalli Illom-hereinafter called the Illom-or to the Government of the erstwhile Travancore State. The appe