K. S. SHRIVASTAV, J.

( 1 ) THE plaintiffs are the appellants. Their suit, instituted under Section 78 of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and endowments Act, 1966 (for short the Endowment Act ) for setting aside the order passed by the 2nd defendant under Section 77 (1) (a) of the Endowments act, whereby the suit house, suit Ramalayam and the suit lands have been declared as public charitable endowments and recovery of the suit house has been ordered, has been dismissed.

( 2 ) IT is no longer in controversy before me that the 1st plaintiff, his father late Javvadi Laxmayya Naidu, his uncle late Narasimhamurthy and his (late narasimhamurthy s) adopted son namely late Javvadi Venkata Ramasastry who was the father-in-law of the 2nd plaintiff and the 2nd plaintiff s husband, namely Javvadi Narasimharao were members of a Joint Hindu Family and had considerable movable and immovable properties in Penugonda Village. Late Laxmayya Naidu was a renowned philanthropist and a patron of arts and literature. He used to patronise Telugu Poets and used to hold literary conferences at Penugonda and also used to honour Telugu poets. This Joint hindu Family had purchased

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