K. MADHAVA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) IN this second appeal by the 1st defendant in O. S. No. 476 of 1954 on the file of the first Additional District Munsif, Tanuku, the question that arises for consideration is whether the appellant is entitled to claim the benefit of a declaration made in favour of the plaintiff that he was reversioner to the estate of the last male-holder Penumarthi Panasayya.

( 2 ) ONE Penumarthi Ramanna filed a suit O. S. No. 476 of 1954, for partition and separate possession of 6 items of property claiming that he and the 1st defendant therein, who is now the appellant in this second appeal, were reversioners to the estate of the last male-holder Panasayya. That suit was resisted by one Rathamma , wife of Bodapati Venkanna, who was impleaded as 3rd defendant, and also by Veera Panasa Ramanna, who was impleaded as 2nd defendant therein, on the ground that Bodapati Venkanna, the husband of Rathamma, was adopted to Panasayya and the 2nd defendant was adopted to the said Bodapati Venkanna. The appellant herein, as the 1st defendant in that suit, admitted the adoptions pleaded by the 2nd and 3rd defendants. In other words, he contended that neither he nor the plaintiff was e

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