( 1 ) THIS Second Appeal arises out of O. S. No. 305 of 1947 on the file of the Court of the District Munsif of eluru, a suit filed by the plaintiff in O. S. No. of 1944 for rendition of accounts in respect of the management of the temples of Sri Janardanaswami and Sri Malleswaraswami of Chattaparru. The plaintiff is the present Managing Trustee of the said temples. The suit was filed for rendition of accounts in respect of the managing of the temples by Ex-Trustees Gutta Pichayya, Gutta Subramanyam and Guutta Venkatasubbamma, the 9th defendant. Defendants 1 to 3 are the sons of Gutta Pichayya. Defendants 2 to 7 are the sons of Gutta Sitaramabrahman. The 8th defendant is Sitaramabrahmans brother. It was alleged in the plaint that Gutta Pichayya and the 9th defendant as guardian of sitaramabrahmam managed the said temples as trustees from 1901, that the 9th defendant acted as a trustee till sitaramabrahmam attained majority, that Pichayya and Sitaramabrahmam after he attained majority acted as trustees till the year 1938, that during the period of their management the trustees collected large sums of money, from the debtors of the temples and from the temple properti