(NRLN, J)

The wife of the deceased-first plaintiff who is the second plaintiff in O.S.No.191 of 1986 on the file of the court of Senior Civil Judge, Nuzvid, is the appellant herein. The suit was filed by the deceased-first plaintiff for declaration of his title to “A” &”B” schedule properties claiming that he has acquired those properties at different times from his earnings and also from the sale proceeds of the joint family lands. The allegations were made in the plaint that his second sister’s daughter was married to him in 1974 and sold away his ancestral house at Borragudem in 1975 and shifted his family to Chandragudem by the end of 1975-1976; he discontinued his self-cultivation and had leased out the properties to several persons. According to the plaintiff, apart from the leases given to others, in May 1976 the plaintiff leased out item Nos.6 to 8 of plaint “B” schedule properties to the second defendant on an annual lease of Rs.750/- for a period of two (2) years and the second defendant continued default and surrendered the land to the plaintiff in February-1978 and thereafter he gave the land on lease to Sri G.Sobhanadri.

2. It was further pleaded that in Febru