( 1 ) THE defendants are the appellants in this second appeal. The suit was filed by the next presumptive reversioners to the estate of one late Venkatareddy who died on 24th October, 1918, leaving behind him his widow the first defendant. Defendants 4 to 11 are the presumptive reversioners and as they did not take any action the plaintiffs who are the reversioners next in degree to defendants 4 to 11 instituted the suit. The first defendant made an earlier adoption which was attacked by defendants 4 to 7 in O. S. No. 53 of 1925, Sub-Court, Guntur. In that suit it was held that the will put forward by the widow of Venkatareddy was invalid and was not genuine and that the adoption made by the first defendant of the present second defendant was invalid. She made yet an earlier adoption of the second defendant s brother. He died and thereafter she adopted the second defendant which adoption was questioned in O. S. No. 53 of 1925. The decision of the trial Court was confirmed in first appeal and also in the second appeal by the High Court. That litigation terminated on 8th December, 1936. The first defendant thereafter put forward a deed of consent from the reversioner