This is an appeal against the judgment of Yahya Ali, J., dismissing a suit brought by the appellant for grant of Letters of Administration with the will of the deceased K. V. Balakrishnamurthy annexed. She is the widow of the testator. The caveator, the defendant in the suit and the respondent herein is the uterine brother of the deceased. The appellant alleged that her husband Balakrishnamurthy duly executed on 4th August, 1947, the will in respect of which letters of administration were sought. He died on 6th August, 1947. The defendant pleaded that when the will was executed by him Balakrishnamurthy was not in a sound and disposing state of mind and in any event the will was executed under coercion and undue influence exercised on the testator by his father-in-law one Dr. G. Venkata Rao. In addition to these pleas which are strictly germane to a testamentary suit, the defendant also pleaded that the deceased was an undivided member of a joint family along with the defendant when he executed the will and when he died and that therefore it was not valid and binding as the deceased had no power to dispose of joint family properties. The following issues were fram