JUDGEMENT :- The plaintiffs in O.S. No.102 of 1975 in the court of the District Munsif, Ramanathapuram are the appellants.

2. The suit was filed for a declaration that the plaintiffs were entitled to take Arulmigu Mangaiperumal deity in procession on the tenth day of Chitrotsavam festival and for a permanent injunction restraining the defendant from preventing the plaintiffs in taking the deity in procession and also for a mandatory injunction directing the defendant and his son to take the deity from the sanctum sanctorum for the said procession on every Chitra Pournami day.

3. In Uthirakosamangai village, there is a temple called Mangaleswari Samastha Mangalanathaswami temple The temple is managed by the Raja of Ramnad as a hereditary trustee. In the same temple, there is a deity of Vishnu called Mangai Perumal. In the month of Chitrai i.e April-May every year, a festival for ten days is celebrated in the temple. On the tenth day festival which corresponds to the Chitra Pournami day, the plaintiffs claim, that they used to take the said Mangai Perumal deity from the main temple in the morning in Kuthirai vaganam to another temple called Govindasami ternple belonging to the