Srinivasan, J.

A.S.No.89 of 1983 arises out of a suit for specific performance of an agreement dated 112. 1977 marked as Ex.A-1 between plaintiffs 1 to 4 and defendants 1 and 2. The plaintiffs are aggrieved by the dismissal of the suit. A.S.No.85 of 1983 arises out of a suit for recovery of a sum of Rs.39,150 representing the arrears of rent from 12. 1978 to 8. 1979 at the rate of Rs.4,350 per mensem and interest thereon. The suit had been decreed and the aggrieved defendant is the appellants. The fifth plaintiff in the suit for specific performance is the defendant in the suit for recovery of money. Defendants 1 and 3 in the suit for specific performance are plaintiffs 1 and 2 in the suit for recovery of money. The parties are referred in this judgment according to their ranking in the suit for specific performance. First plaintiff is the father of plaintiffs 2 to 5 and defendants 1 and 3 are the wives of the second defendant. Fourth defendant is a lessee of a portion of the suit property.

2. The second defendant had been running a spinning mill by name ‘Sri Ramachandra Textiles’ in partnership with somebody else. The plant and the machinery in the mill belonged to him