JUDGEMENT :- Defendants 1, 3 and 4 in O. S. No. 72 of 1967 on the file of the District Munsif, Dindigul are the appellants. The first and second plaintiffs in the suit, claiming to be the third wife and daughter respectively of the second defendant, filed the suit for declaration of their title to the suit properties and for a permanent injunction restraining the appellants from interfering with their possession and enjoyment of the same. They claimed title to the suit properties on the basis of a family arrangement said to have been entered into and evidenced by Ex. A.1 dated 25-5-1964, between the second defendant, the then owner of the suit properties, the plaintiffs and the appellants. According to the plaintiffs the suit properties have been given to them absolutely under the family arrangement and that the appellants to whom other properties have been allotted under the said family arrangement have been wrongfully asserting title to the suit properties and interfering with their possession.

2. The appellants resisted the suit contending that they were not willing parties to the said family arrangement, that their thumb impression have been obtained in Ex A.1 by deceit and that

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