Judgment.-The first defendant is the appellant. The plaintiff, claiming to be the nearest reversioner to the estate of one Narasimhacharyulu deceased, sued for possession of 2½ acres of inam lands with mesne profits from the first defendant, an alienee of the said lands from the daughter of Narasimhacharyulu. The last male owner died in 1870 leaving a widow who died in 1920, and a daughter who died in 1942. The daughter executed a deed of settlement of the suit lands in favour of the first defendant on 4th March, 1937, valuing the lands at Rs.1,000, The deed of settlement proceeded on the footing that Narasimhacharyulu had bequeathed the lands absolutely to his daughter under his will and that she, in her turn, was making a settlement of the lands in favour of the first defendant. Even during the lifetime of the daughter, the plaintiff claiming to be the presumptive reversioner, filed O.S.No.84 of 1940 on the file of the Court of the District Munsif of Bezwada for a declaration that the settlement deed executed by the daughter in favour of the first defendant was not binding on him and the other reversioners of Narasimhacharyulu beyond the lifetime of the daughter. The suit was val

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