( 1 ) THE legal representatives of me sole defendant in O. S. No. 82 of 1993 on the file of the Senior Civil Judge, Nuzvid, filed this second appeal. The relevant facts may, briefly, be stated as under. For the sake of convenience, the parties shall be referred to, as arrayed in the suit.

( 2 ) ONE Mr. Shaik Moula Saheb had two sons by name, Shaik jaffer and Shaik Mohaboob, and a daughter by name Shaik bhanubi. Plaintiffs who are the children of Shaik Jaffer, filed the suit alleging that their grant-father Moula Saheb acquired about 2 acres of agricultural land at Nuzvid (suit schedule land), and was living with his son, at Vijayawada, for most part of his life. The land was said to have been leased to his son-in-law Shaik Masthan, the sole defendant, (on whose death, his LRs were brought on record), on payment of annual maktha. It was alleged that Moula Saheb executed a registered gift deed dated 13-11-1979, donating the suit schedule property to the respondents, out of love and affection. The plaintiffs filed A. T. C No. 35 of 1981 in the Court of ii Additional District Munsif, Vijayawada, seeking eviction of the defendant from the land. The detfendant, filed a counter affidavit

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