( 1 ). CIVIL No. 4484 of 1991 is filed by the appellant (plaintiff) challenging the legality and correctness of the judgment and order dated 21/12/1990 passed by the High court in Appeal No. 122 of 1980. The dispute in this appeal is confined to a tenanted premises situated in Mattuplayam Road, Coimbatore wherein the appellant is running a hotel under the name and style "ganesh Lodge-Ganesh Bhavan". The brief facts necessary for disposal of this appeal may be summarised as under: Admittedly the property in dispute was owned and possessed by the mother of Dr Mrs. Thangam Vergeese (Respondent 15 herein ). Narayana Rao Kubevoor (Respondent 2 herein) took the suit premises as a tenant from the mother of Dr Mrs. Thangam Vergeese and started running hotel business therein. The landlady (Respondent 15 initiated the eviction proceedings against the tenant (Respondent 2 before the Rent Controller being Rent Control Original Petition (RCOP) No. 250 of 1972 on the ground that the tenant had sub-let the premises without obtaining her consent. This eviction petition was filed only against the tenant (Respondent 2. The appellant made an application for being impleaded as a party since he was vit