AR. LAKSHMANAN, J.

This Letters Patent Appeal is directed against the judgment of M. Srinivasan, J. as he then was, dated 22-11-1991 in A. S. No. 960 of 1986 dismissing the appeal and confirming the judgment and decree of the Subordinate Judge. Namakkal, in O.S. No. 47 of 1984. The plaintiff is the appellant herein.

2. The case of the appellant in short is as follows:-- Arulmighu Angalamman Temple in S. Palayapalayam is her family temple and Arulmighu Angalamman is their family deity. The suit temple has been in the management of herself and her ancestors for over hundred years or three generations and none outside the family had ever managed the affairs of the temple. One Marutha Pillai alias Muthu Pillai and his brother Kappa Pillai were the trustees. Before them, their ancestors were the trustees. In the line of succession to trusteeship, after Marutha Pillai and Kappa Pillai, Veerabadra Pillai son of Marutha Pillai, and Kandaswami and Karuppa Pillai, sons of Kappa Pillai became the trustees, having inherited the said office. On 9-5-1981, Veerabadra Pillai executed a deed of gift endowing valuable item of agricultural lands on his family deity and putting the same in t