Judgement

Consolidated Appeal (No. 38 of 1920), by special leave, from a judgment and five decrees of the High Court (August 17, 1915), affirming four and reversing one decree of the District Judge of Trichinopoly (October 28, 1908), who had affirmed three and reversed two decrees of the District Munsif.

The five suits which gave rise to the present consolidated appeal were instituted by the appellant in 1904 in the Court of the District Munsif to eject the defendants from lands occupied by them respectively in the village of Karappudayanpatti ; the plaint alleged that the defendants were tenants from year to year whose tenancies had been determined by notice. The appellant was head of the Thurayar math, and in that capacity held the village under an inam grant made in 1743. The defendants pleaded that they had permanent rights of occupancy.

The terms of the grant, the effect of the evidence, and the course of the proceedings in the Courts in India fully appear from the judgment of the Judicial Committee.

The Estates Land Act (I. of 1908, Mad.) was passed and came into operation after the decree of the trial judge and before that of the first appellate Court.

Special leave to appea