( 1 ) THESE two appeals arise out of O. S. No. 73 of 1950 on the file of the District Munsif s Court, Tenali, a suit filed by the ist respondent for a permanent injunction restraining the 4th defendant from assigning or otherwise alienating the suit site and "for a mandatory injunction directing defendants 1 to 3 to remove the encroachment. over the said site.

( 2 ) TO appreciate the facts and the contentions of the parties, it will be convenient and necessary, at the outset, to notice the topography of the locality in question wherein the impugned encroachment is alleged to have been made. In Tenali town, in Ward No. 7 one of the main roads Satyanarayana Park Road runs from north to south. An equally important road called Andhra Ratna Road runs from west to east. The plaintiff s house is situated at the corner which the Andhra ratna Road makes with Satyanarayana Park Road. Satyanarayana Park Road abuts the plaintiff s house on the east whereas the Andhra Ratna Road abuts it on the south. The width of the Andhra Ratna Road is 57 feet and that part of the road abutting the permises of the plaintiff is about 165 feet. The plaintiff has been using these premises for man