RAMANUJAM, J.:- This appeal by the fifth defendant is directed against the decision of Kailasam, J., in C.S. No.52 of 1960, upholding the plaintiffs title to the suit lands and directing delivery of possession of the same by the defendants. The first respondent herein is the plaintiff in the suit, and her case was that her husband Nagappa Naicker had purchased the suit lands measuring about 9 grounds by a registered sale deed dated May 24, 1929 from one Manicka Naicker and his sons, that he was in possession and enjoyment of the same during his lifetime, that after his death on January 12, 1942 she as the executor appointed under his will dated May 14, 1941 and as a life-estate holder was in possession and enjoyment of the same till 1954 when the first defendant trespassed into the suit properties, demolished a fence existing on the land and occupied the same assorting title under a document of exchange dated 2-2-1954 executed by the fifth defendant, the Southern India Education Trust, Madras and that, therefore, she was constrained to file the suit to establish her title and for recovery of possession.

2. Defendants 1 to 4, who are respondents 2 to 5 herein, resisted the s