Defendant in a suit for recovery of possession of Acs.3-90 cents in Survey NO.100 of Rajanagaram of Rajahmundry, which hereinafter would be referred to as 'the suit land', is the appellant.

2. The case, in brief, of the respondent is that, as the appellant and her husband are closely related, she, at the instance of the appellant, had purchased the suit land under EX.A-1 registered sale deed from its owner and paid the consideration payable by her to her vendor through her husband and her brother and was put in possession thereof and later she entrusted the management of the suit land to the appellant as he promised to manage the same on her behalf. Appellant, who was sending the rentals from the suit land and was paying taxes for some years, informed her in 1971 that inasmuch as leasing out the suit land to tenants may create problems in future, he himself would cultivate the same and pay 40 bags of paddy per annum to her and started cultivating the same till the end of 1977. Later, as differences cropped up between him and her husband in connection with the settlement deed executed by Smt. Mahalakshmamma and her husband Veeraraju, appellant stopped paying rent. So, she got