This is an application to revise the order passed by the learned District Judge, Coimbatore, on 30th October, 1956, in C.R.P. No. 853 of 1955 on his file. The revision petition was filed before the District Judge under section 12 of the Madras Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1949.

The building to which these proceedings relate was purchased by the petitioner on 27th July, 1953. At that time, he was conducting a coffee-hotel under the name and style of “Ranjitha Vilas” in a rented building in Coimbatore. He said in his petition filed before the House Rent Controller, Coimbatore City, that he purchased the building “ for accommodating this business (of Ranjitha Vilas)” . Immediately after purchasing the building, he sent a notice to the respondent, who was in occupation of the building as a tenant, calling on him to surrender vacant possession. The respondent by reply declined to do so. The petitioner thereafter entered into a family settlement with his brother and son, under which the business known as “ Ranjitha Vilas” was made over to them. The petitioner, according to him, ceased, on the making of the family settlement, to have any interest in the business known