These appeals are preferred against dismissal of plaintiffs suit for declaration of title and possession, and for recovery of arrears of rent. Being aggrieved by reversal Judgment of the First Appellate Court, unsuccessful plaintiffs have preferred these appeals.

2. Plaintiffs have filed suits – O.S.Nos.216, 217, 218/1988 on the file of the District Munsif Court, Sankari against the Defendants for recovery of possession of thatched sheds alleging that the Defendants are Tenants under the plaintiffs and their predecessor-in-title. Since common points are involved in all three appeals, the appeals shall stand disposed of by this common Judgment.

3. Case of the plaintiffs is that first plaintiff Ramayee Ammal was the absolute owner of S.No.527/5 to an extent of 4.23 acres in Chinna Goundanoor Village, Sankari Taluk and the first plaintiff has put up thatched shed in S.No.527/5. Defendants are alleged to have occupied the suit property as Tenants under the first plaintiff on a monthly rent of Rs.100/- and the Defendants have been regularly paying rent to the first plaintiff. Since Defendants committed wilful default in the payment of rent from June 1982, Eviction Petition wa