( 1 ) UNSUCCESSFUL plaintiff is the appellant. Suit, O. S. No. 95 of 1985 was filed by the sole plaintiff on the file of the Subordinate Judge, Gudivada for specific performance of agreement of sale dated 5-1-1973 directing defendants 1 to 5 to execute registered sale deed and for possession of the suit schedule property.

( 2 ) FOR the sake of convenience, parties to this appeal would be referred to in accordance with their ranking in the suit.

( 3 ) THE averments in the plaint, in brief, are set out as hereunder :- Late Bobba Krishna Murthy was the undivided father of the 1st defendant. The 2nd defendant is the wife of Krishna Murthy and defendants 3 to 5 are their daughters. Krishna Murthy is the maternal uncle of the plaintiff. Krishna Murthy and his undivided father Ramachandrayya borrowed a sum of Rs. 4,390-00 from the plaintiff s wife and executed a pronote dated 16-8-1967 in her favour agreeing to repay the same with interest at 12% p. a. They made a part payment of Rs. 25-00 on 12-8-1970 and endorsed the same on the back of the pronote. Ramachandrayya died in or about the year 1971. Subsequently Krishna Murthy also died in or about the year 1972. The plain