1. First respondent filed the suit for a declaration that the sale proceedings of the land in S.Nos.62, 63, 450, 451 and 334 and the house situated therein at Juntapally village (hereinafter referred to suit property) for recovery of arrears of the excise dues from her father are null and void and are not binding on her, and for a consequential injunction restraining respondents 2 to 4 and the appellant from dispossessing her from the suit property which was decreed by the trial Court. Aggrieved thereby the third defendant in the suit preferred this appeal. For the sake of convenience, I would hereinafter refer the parties to the appeal as they are arrayed in the trial Court.

2. Plaintiff (1st respondent) instituted the suit initially against the Government of Andhra Pradesh represented by its Collector (Excise) Hyderabad District (first defendant) and the Tahasildar Tandur (second defendant). Subsequently she filed I.A.No.489 of 1974 to add the appellant as third defendant in the suit which was allowed vide order dated 23-07-1974. Later K.Lakshmamma (fourth respondent) was added as the fourth defendant, vide order in I.A.No.396 of 1978 dated 07-03-1979. After the death