Ramachandran Nair, J.

The rather strange and unusual dispute which we are called upon to resolve in these cases is between the Mother Superior of a Convent and the Vicar of a Church for the control of management of a High School, which was originally started in the year 1945 as a Girls High School and later converted into a mixed School for boys and girls. Since the issues raised in the connected Writ Appeals are consequential to the controversy in the main case, i.e.W.A.No.28/2011, we proceed to consider the said case first and the parties referred to herein are those arrayed in the said Writ Appeal, wherein the Mother Superior is the appellant and the Vicar is the first respondent.

2. The specific case of the appellant is that the Little Flower Girls High School was established by the Mother Superior of the Little Flower Convent under orders obtained from the Director of Public Instruction of the Princely State of Cochin in the year 1945. In fact the School was started in the first floor of the Convent building, where nuns are staying in the ground floor. School was started after acquiring land around the Convent in the course of time through several documents of purc