JUDGMENT :

Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the relevant material.

2. Leave granted.

3. The respondents in the appeal, as plaintiffs, had instituted a suit under Section 92 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 for settling a scheme for the administration of the first defendant temple, viz., Sree Panimoola Devi Temple (hereinafter referred to as "the temple") and other incidental reliefs. The suit was dismissed by the learned Trial Court. In appeal, the High Court has set aside the decree of dismissal passed by the learned Trial Court and remanded the suit for de novo consideration. Aggrieved, the defendants have filed the present appeal.

4. Having heard learned counsel for the parties at length, we find that the matter lies within a short compass. The learned Trial Court, on an elaborate consideration of the evidence adduced by the parties, came to the conclusion that the case set up by the plaintiffs that the temple is a public temple had not been proved and established. In this regard, the documents exhibited by the defendants as Exhibit B-1 to B-4 were also considered in great detail by the learned Trial Court to come to the aforesaid conclusion. The learned Trial C