KRISHNA RAO, J. :- These appeals have been preferred by the two defendants from the judgment and decree of the Subordinate Judge, Amalapuram, in O.S. No. 90 of 1949, a suit in ejectment brought in respect of a coconut garden measuring about four acres in extent in the village of Krapa. The plaintiffs are the joint landholders of the village of Krapa, which is admittedly an estate as denned in air Madras Estates Land Act, The first defendant was employed in their service as a tanedar from 1932 to 1947, and the 2nd defendant is his brother. The plaintiffs case is that the land is private home farm land and that the defendants are trespassers upon it; They alleged that the 1st defendant, was in charge of the land as their tanedar and has set up his brother, the 2nd defendant, to claim occupancy rights in respect of it. The defendants case is that it is ryoti land, that the 1st defendant leased the land to the 2nd defendant in 1933 or 1934 under the instructions of the father of plaintiffs 1 to 3 and the husband of tile, 4th plaintiff, who were the joint proprietors of the estate, for an annual rent of 2,000 coconuts and that in 1938 the father of plaintiffs 1 to 3 and the 4th