ORDER :- R. Lingaraj, who has been held to be a lunatic under the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and respondents 1 to 4 in O. P. No. 169 of 1969 on the file of the Court of the District Judge of Coimbatore (West) are the appellants. The proceedings between the parties have a long and chequered history and for a full appreciation of the controversy it is necessary to refer to the course of the litigation from its inception. Parvathi alias Kundhiammal, the respondent herein, is the wife of Lingaraj. She came forward with a petition under Sections 62 and 67 of the Act for directing an inquisition for the purpose of ascertaining whether her husband, Lingaraj, is of unsound mind and incapable of managing himself and his affairs and for consequential orders and directions of Court, if the Court found on inquisition that Lingaraj is of unsound mind. Though she had given birth to three sons and a daughter through Lingaraj, the respondent's case was that, Lingaraj had been of unsound mind from the year 1967 and he was incapable of managing his affairs. It was her further case that in or about the first week of July 1969, the brothers of Lingaraj wh