This second appeal is canvassed against the decree and judgment rendered by the learned District Judge, Tirunelveli, in A.S.No.79 of 1981 on 38. 1981 whereby, he set aside the decree and judgment rendered by the trial court, the learned Subordinate Judge, Tirunelveli made in O.S.No.86 of 1978 on 38. 1979, decreeing the suit which was filed by the appellant herein.

.2. The brief facts, which led to the second appeal, as culled out from the records, may be stated as follows:

.The appellant herein is the second plaintiff before the trial court and the suit was laid against the respondents herein, being the constituted authorities under the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, praying for the declaration that the suit temple by name Mariamman temple is a denominational temple exclusively belonging to Keelatheru Yadavas of Mullaikulam and for permanent injunction restraining the Officers of the H.R. & C.E. Department, namely, the defendants from in any way interfering with the administration and management of the said temple in question. Claiming that the Mariamman temple in question was constructed about 150 years age by the ancestors of Keelatheru Yadhavas of Mu