Venkatarama Ayyar, J.-

This is an appeal by the plaintiff against the judgment: of Panchapakesa Ayyar, J., in S.A.No.2159 of 1945. The suit was for recovery of possession of eight items of immoveable properties on the ground that they belonged to one Buchipudi Rami Reddi and that the plaintiff and defendants 1 and 2 were entitled to them as his reversioners. The following genealogical table will bring out the relationship of the parties as set out in the plaint.

The plaintiff alleged that after the death of Rami Reddi, his widow and his daughters had effected alienations of the suit properties without any necessity, that those alienations were not binding on the reversioners and that the plaintiff was entitled to partition and delivery of 1/3rd share therein. Defendants 1 and 2 admitted the claim of the plaintiff. The other defendants contested the suit mainly on the ground that the properties did not devolve on Lakshmamma as the widow of Rami Reddi but that the brother of Rami Reddi who took the properties by survivorship had settled them on her for her lifetime in lieu of her claim for maintenance. They also contended that the alienations were supported by necessity and binding on

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