VEERASWAMI, C.J.:- First defendant appeals from a reversing judgment of Ramakrishnan, J. He allowed the respondents' suit for recovery of possession of the plaint schedule properties in their capacity that they were sole surviving trustees of a private family trust under which the properties had been endowed. One Srinivasa Naidu purchased in 1881 the plaint schedule properties and constituted the same, as we were told, as a trust or endowment for performance of certain objects. What precisely are the terms of the trust, are yet to be ascertained. The founder nominated his brother's son, Nayeena, to succeed him as a trustee, but made no further provision for devolution. Nayeena died in 1908. Parankusam, the son of Srinivasa Naidu, succeeded to the office and held it between 1922 and 1936. He died in 1936 leaving his widow Govindammal and a will Ex.B-2. He nominated her to be the trustee after his lifetime and provided further that she might, according to her will and pleasure, nominate any one as a trustee to succeed her to perform the objects of the trust. She accordingly nominated her sister's son by a will and died on 28-11-1958. We may in passing notice that because Par