Venkatarama Ayyar, J.-

This is an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the decision of this Court in Appeal No. 698 of 1948. That appeal arose out of a suit for partition instituted by the respondent in the Court of the Subordinate Judge of Narsapur. The present petitioner was the 1st defendant in the suit. His wife was the 2nd defendant. The plaintiff alleged that he had been taken in adoption by the defendants on 7th April, 1932 and that as adopted son he was entitled to a half share in the family properties. On 6th July, 1940 the 1st defendant had sold some of the suit properties to the 2nd defendant under Exhibit D-7 and settled other properties on her on 25th October 1944 under Exhibit D-10. The plaintiff contended that these deeds were not binding on him and that he was entitled to a half share in the properties comprised in those deeds. The defendants contested the suit on several grounds. They denied that they took the plaintiff in adoption. They contended that the deeds Exhibit D-7 and D-10 were valid and binding on him. They also pleaded that the suit was barred by limitation. They raised several other pleas. On these pleadings, as many as 25 issues

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