Second Appeal No.1080 of 1998 is preferred against the judgment and decree dated 31.7.1996 rendered in A.S.No.27 of 1994 by the Court of Subordinate Judge, Dharmapuri, thereby dismissing the Appeal without costs and confirming the judgment and decree dated 29.10.1993 rendered in O.S.No.353 of 1989 by the Court of District Munsif, Harur.

2. Tracing the history of the above Second Appeal coming to be preferred by the defendants in the suit, it comes to be known that the respondent/plaintiff has filed the suit for declaration and injunction, on averments such as that the suit property belongs to the plaintiff by way of the sale deed dated 23.8.1989 and the said property was purchased from one Venkataraman, who got the power deed from the 1st defendant; that ever since, the plaintiff, being in possession, is cultivating the same; that the defendants have no right in the same, but the 1st defendant asked the plaintiff to quit the suit property since he has to cancel the power deed; that since the plaintiff refused, the 1st defendant and his men attempted to enter into the suit property forcibly. Hence the suit for declaration and injunction.

3. On the contrary, the defendants