Judgment.- The plaintiffs in O.S. No. 78 of 1973 on the file of the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Nagapattinam are the appellants. The plaintiffs have instituted the suit in their capacity as the hereditary trustees of what is known as the private family trust Sri Natarajaswamy Temple, Thillaivilagam. According to the allegations in the plaint seme years ago while digging the field of one S.N. Sambasiva Iyer his farm servant Vaithi Ambalagaran came across one Nataraja Vigraham and two Amman Vigrahams. The Government recognised the finder Vaithi Ambalagaran as the owner of the said Vigrahams under the Treasure Trove Act. Under Exhibit A-1, a document styled as a registered release deed, the said Sambasiva Iyer got the Vigrahams from the said Vaithi Ambalagaran. However, Sambasiva Iyer was not financially in a position to build a temple for installing the Vigrahams and making provisions for the daily pooja and neivedyam of the idols. He therefore gave the idols to one Chockalinga Chettiar, brother of Narayanan Chettiar great grandfather of the plaintiffs. The said brothers constructed a temple for the family business in the hands of the brothers prospered enormously, with the res

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