1. This appeal arises from a suit for declaration of title and recovery of possession of immovable property with mesne profits. The suit was decreed by the trial court, and defendants 1 and 2 have preferred this appeal.

2. The property which forms the subject matter of the suit comprises of 50 cents obtained by the third defendant under Ext. P.1 dated 1141956 from her parents, defendants 1 and 2, the first defendant being the mother and the second defendant the father of the third defendant. The remaining 11/4 cents were purchased in the name of the third defendant later under Ext. P. 2 dated 9 21960. Ext. P.1 purported to convey 50 cents of land and a building to the third defendant in lieu of streedhanam promised to her at the time of her marriage to the fourth defendant. The whole area was sold to the plaintiff, under Ext. P. 7 dated 22 81960. According to the plaintiff, defendants 3 and 4 resided in the suit property for some time after the marriage and thereafter they left for Kayamkulam, the native place of the fourth defendant, entrusting management of the property to defendants 1 and 2. It is further alleged by the plaintiff that after the date of the sale in her