Ismail, J.-The plaintiff in O.S. No. 119 of 1966 on the file of the Court of the Additional Subordinate Judge of Cuddalore is the appellant herein. He represented by his father as next friend on the allegation that he was a person of unsound mind, instituted the suit in forma pauperis for possession of the suit properties, after setting aside several alienations and the mortgage executed in favour of the second defendant, and for future mesne profits.

2. The claim of the plaintiff-appellant was that the appellant is one of the two sons of Krishna Reddiar who had four daughters and the family owned extensive properties; the appellant became mentally unsound in or about 1956 and used to behave in an unnatural manner and used to talk incoherently; his father and his elder brother Ramaswami Reddiar got him treated for his illness and for some time he was treated by various local native physicians and also at Salem, and finding that he did not improve, he was taken to Vellore and there he was treated at a hospital (Bahayam Mental Hospital) undertaking treatment only for mentally unsound people and he was there for about 1½ months during which period he even attempted to commit suicide; t

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