Ramachandra Iyer, C.J.-On the taking over by the Government of Ramanathapuram Zamindari under the provisions of the Abolition Act certain amounts by way of advance compensation were deposited. There were a number of claims made for portions of the amount deposited. Some of them were by creditors, and others by maintenance-holders. There was also a claim on the part of the sons of Raja of Ramnad. The Raja was claiming that he was entitled to the entirety of the compensation amount. But each one of these claims was settled on the advice of certain mediators. The respondents to the present appeal, Kandaswami Dorai, is the brother of the Raja of Ramnad, and, so far as he was concerned, it was agreed that he should receive a sum of Rs. 75,000 in full quit from out of the entire compensation amount paid and to be paid by the Government for the estate. As the advance compensation deposited covered only a moiety of the entire compensation due, he was to get initially a sum of Rs. 37,500. That sum was paid. But the compromise provided, in addition for certain rights also to persons in the position of maintenance-holder in the interim compensation amount payable by the Government to the prop

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