Judgement

Consolidated Appeals (No. 75 of 1934) from a common judgment and eleven decrees of the High Court (September 2, 1931) reversing a common judgment and eleven decrees of the Subordinate Judge of Ramnad at Madura (February 25, 1924), who reversed a common judgment and eleven decrees of the District Munsif of Devakottai (December 20, 1920).

The suits out of which these consolidated appeals arose were brought on November 25, 1918, by a Receiver on behalf of Sri Subrahmanyaswami temple at Kunnakudi for the possession of various plots of land in a hamlet called Murugan Endal, in the village of Uyyakondan, belonging to the temple, which had been alienated by a permanent cowle, dated April 1, 1865, by the then dharmakarta in favour of the managers of two Chetti temples. The suits were against various defendants who had obtained transfers of their several plots from the managers of the Chetti temples in or about 1897.

The main question in the appeal was whether the plaintiffs suits were barred by limitation and adverse possession. The appellants were the present managers and trustees of the temple, and, the Receiver having gone out, they now represented the temple. The respondents