A.S. VENKATACHALAMOORTHY, J.

The Appellants (who are the legal representatives of the sole plaintiff) having lost before the trial Court as well as before the learned single Judge of this Court, has preferred the above appeal. The plaintiff laid a suit in O.S.706 of 1977 on the file of the learned Subordinate Judge, Coimbatore against the respondents 1 to 7 and the father of the respondents 8 and 9 herein praying the Court to grant a decree in her favour as well as 7th defendant (who is 6th respondent in this appeal) setting aside the order of the Commissioner, HR & CE i.e, 8th defendant (who is 7th respondent in this appeal) in A.P.104 of 1975 and further declaring that the plaintiff and the 7th defendant are entitled to hold office as the hereditary trustees of the temples or in the alternative, the defendants 1 to 6 are entitled to hold office as hereditary trustees of the above temples and then declare that the plaintiff and the 7th defendant are entitled to hold office as the hereditary trustees along with the defendants 1 to 6 as per the turns to which they are entitled to under law.

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