Judgment

R. M. SAHAI, J.:- The only question that arises for consideration in this appeal, directed against the judgment of Andhra Pradesh High Court is, if the High Court committed any error of law in affirming the judgment and decree passed by the Civil Judge decreeing the suit of the plaintiff/respondents for declaration that they were owners of the land in dispute and permanent injunctions restraining the defendant/ appellant and A. P. State Road Transport Corporation, respondent No. 12 from interfering in their possession.

2. The suit was founded on title derived through purchase from one K. Nagaiah who had himself purchased from K. Mailiah. It was claimed that respondents and their predecessors in interest had been in possession of the land in dispute as owners since last over seventy, years. They had been paying the land revenue and entering into transactions in respect of parts of the land from time to time. Suit was resisted apart from merits on limitation, non-joinder, deficient court-fee, territorial jurisdiction, validity of notice etc. None of them found favour with trial Court. In appeal the challenge appears to have been, confined, to merits only. Even in this Court n