1. These second appeals arise out of the same suit. The first case is by the first defendant; and the second one is by plaintiffs 2 and 3. There is a memorandum of cross-objections in the first case by the same plaintiffs 2 and 3, so that the memorandum of cross-objections and the second of these cases involve the same questions. The suit was dismissed by the trial court, but decreed by the lower appellate court in part.

2. The suit properties originally belonged to the father of the second defendant, who was the grandfather of the first plaintiff. The third defendant is the wife of the second defendant. The grandfather executed Ex. P1 in 1114, a gift deed, by which the suit properties were given to the second defendant, the first plaintiff, who was then a minor, and the children to be born thereafter to the second defendant. Plaintiffs 2 and 3 are the children subsequently born to the second defendant. I may also mention at this stage that the parties are Nairs. The donor reserved a life interest with him; and after his death the second defendant for himself and the third defendant as guardian of the first plaintiff, who was still a minor, executed Ex. P2 in 1117 sellin