State of Kerala and its officers are the appellants. They are the defendants in a suit filed by the original respondents seeking a declaration of title to the plaint schedule property and also for a perpetual injunction. In the first court, the plaintiffs lost. They went in appeal before the lower appellate court. The appellate court reversed the judgment and decree of the trial court and the suit was decreed declaring title of the plaintiffs over the plaint schedule property and prohibiting the defendants from trespassing into the plaint schedule property, demolishing a building thereon and doing any act adversely affecting the title and possession of the plaintiffs.

2. Shorn off unnecessary details, the relevant pleadings are thus: Plaint schedule property along with a larger extent belonged to Karintholil Lucka Thomman. It was devolved on him by virtue of a registered partition deed of the year 1110 ME. He assigned the property to the 1st plaintiff (his daughter-in-law) in the year 1978 as per Ext.A1 document. Plaint schedule land is part of item No.3 in Ext.A1. 2nd plaintiff was the husband of 1st plaintiff. Plaintiffs possessed the property and they were cultivating t