( 1 ) THE judgment of the Court was delivered by the Hon ble Mr. Justice viswanatha Sastry. These two Letters Patent Appeals have been preferred against the judgment of Umamaheswaram J. , in two second appeals S. A. No. 2517 of 1952 and S. A. No. 804 of 1953, affirming the decision of the Courts below decreeing the suit. The first defendant is the appellant in one of the appeals and the second defendant, the State of Andhra, represented by the Collector of Guntur, is the appellant in the other, though the contentions of the parties in both the appeals are the same. The plaintiffs sued as representing the inhabitants of Erikalapudi, a hamlet of Gudivada village, for a declaration that an assignment of 3 acres 60 cents of poramboke land in D. No. 493 by the second defendant (now the State of Andhra) in favour of the first defendant, a " political sufferer ", does not affect the rights of the plaintiffs to use the land as a Mandabayalu for their cattle, for threshing corn, boiling and drying turmeric and as a play ground for school boys and for an injunction restraining the defendants from interfering with the exercise of these rights. In the plaint the rights claimed by the plaintiff
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