( 1 ) THESE two Civil Miscellaneous appeals arise from a common order in two interlocutory applications. I. A. No. 866/1988 was an application filed by the defendants for a temporary injunction restraining the plaintiffs from evicting them from the suit malgie in pursuance of the eviction orders obtained by the plaintiffs, or otherwise. I. A. No. 911/1988 was a petition filed by the plaintiffs to exclude the counter-claim put forward by the defendants in their written statement, claiming specific performance of the agreement of sale. The learned III Addl. Judge dismissed I. A. 866/1988 and allowed I. A. 911/1988. These two appeals are accordingly filed by the defendants.

( 2 ) PLAINTIFFS are the landlords of the suit malgie, and the defendants tenants therein. Plaintiffs filed an eviction petition, R. C. No. 152/1981, and obtained an order of eviction. An appeal preferred by the defendants was dismissed. The tenants carried the matter to this Court in c. R P. No. 3498/1984. In this Civil revision Petition the tenants (defendants) filed a petition, CM. P. No. 18062/87, to take into consideration the settlement arrived at between the parties, whereunder the plaintiff