( 1 ) THIS is an appeal by the defendants against the decree and judgment of the Court of the Subordinate Judge, Guntur, decreeing O. S. No. 32 of 1951 filed by the respondent against the appellants for a declaration that she was the owner of the kudivaram rights in the suit land and that she was in possession of the same in the year 1947-48 and alternatively for recovery of possession. The plaintiff s case may be briefly stated. The plaint schedule land is situated in the village of Vaddamukkala. The plaintiff acquired the land under a will executed by her father in the year 1924 and, since then, she had been in possession of the same getting it cutivated by farm servants and hired labour. Since her father s death, her mother owned about 250 acres of land in that village. She had been getting her lands in the said village cultivated personally and had been supervising the cultivation of the plaintiff s lands. But, from the beginning of the year 1947, her husband took over management as her mother expressed unwillingness to look after the cultivation. The defendants were the farm servants of her mother and they were kept to watch the plaint schedule land in the year