JUDGMENT:- The second claimant in L. A. C. No. 128 of 1967 on the file of the City Civil Court, Madras, is the appellant herein. The said land acquisition case is a reference under Sections 30 and 31 of the Land Acquisition Act made to the Court in respect of the compensation awarded for certain lands acquired by. Government. Having regard to the nature of the controversy between the parties, it is unnecessary to refer to the land acquisition proceedings themselves in detail.

2. The case of the first claimant, who is the first respondent herein, was that the entire block of land of 6.15 acres belonged to him, the same having been purchased by his father-in-law in the Court auction held in O. S. No. 525 of 1936 on the file of the Court of the District Munsif of Poonamallee, benami for him and taken possession of as early as 1941; that while so, one Rajagopala Pillai claiming some right in the said property, trespassed into the same and started making some alienations to various persons who also began to trespass into the property; that thereupon the first claimant and his father-in-law filed C. S. No. 56 of 1951 on the file of this Court, which was later on transferred to th