Mohan, J.

1. The legal representatives of the original plaintiff who came to be impleaded pending suit by an order in I.A. No. 7800 of 1974 in O.S. No. 2125 of 1970 on the file of the City Civil Court are the appellants in this appeal.

2. The suit was originally laid on the file of the City Civil Court which later on came to be transferred to this Court and numbered as O.S. No. 49 of 1975. The plaint allegations are shortly as follows:

3. The plaintiff purchased a house site, Plot No. 3, Door Nos.1/1 and 2/2, Cenotaph Road Teynampet, Madras. The sale deed is dated 10.12.1957. She was in her possession of it. The first defendant is the natural son of the plaintiff. He was given away in adoption to one Ramanathan Chettiar, his consanguine brother, namely, the son of the original plaintiffs husband, born through his first wife. The second defendant is the plaintiffs daughter-in law.

4. The plaintiff executed a power of attorney on 28th October, 1935 in favour of the first defendant. The said deed was registered on 29.10.1935. The object of executing the document was to enable the first defendant to manage the plaintiff's business affairs in foreign territories, principally in Mala