JUDGMENT.-The plaintiffs are the appellants. They filed the suit in a representative capacity, representing the Boyar community people residing in five groups of villages which are set out in the plaint. The relief asked for in the suit was a declaration that Sri Devi Badra Kaliamman Temple at Gettimmallanpudur, hamlet of Ambarampalayam village, Pollachi Taluk, Coimbatore district, is a religious denominational institution belonging to the religious denomination of the Boyar community residing in the said five groups of villages and that they are entitled exclusively to conduct and manage the affairs of the said temple and to restrain the defendant, their agents, servants and men by a permanent injunction from in any way interfering with the possession, management and administration of the said temple by the plaintiffs. The facts as found by the Court below were these: The said temple was founded by the Boyar community residing in the said five groups of villages a few decades ago and ever since the foundation of the temple, it is only that community people who have been controlling and managing the institution. The trustees of the institution were elected by the villagers belongin

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