Judgement

Consolidated Appeals from a judgment and three decrees (February 18, 1913) varying three decrees of the District Judge of Trichinopoly (July 27, 1909), which varied decrees of the District Munsif of Kulitalai.

The suits which gave rise to the present consolidated appeals were brought in the Court of the District Munsif by one Rangaratnam Aiyer, since deceased, and now represented by the appellants, against numerous defendants represented by the respondents. The plaintiff claimed to eject the defendants, the persons in possession of the lands in question, as being yearly tenants who had received due notice to quit.

The plaintiffs title was not in dispute in the appeals. It appeared that the lands in question formed part of a samudayam estate long held in common by certain Brahman families, and (with other land) fell to the plaintiff, one of the pangalis or sharers, upon a partition in 1897. In 1869 and in 1885 pattas had been issued to the sharers by the Government " showing the particulars of land in your occupation, the assessment charged on each field and the kist payable to the monegar." These pattas consolidated the holdings which as to the greater part came under a s