(Delivered by the Chief Justice):These two applications for the issue of writs of certiorari are directed against two orders of the Court of Small Causes passed as the appellate authority, in two appeals againt ah order of the House Rent Controller made on a petition by one Syed Ahmed Khan the contesting respondent before us for possession of a building in Ellis Road, Mount Road, Madras. He sought the eviction of the two petitioners before us who were occupying the ground floor and the first floor of the building respectively. The ground on which the petition was based was that the respondent required the building for his own occupation. He alleged that he was not occupying a residential building of his own in the city. The Rent Controller dismissed the petition against the petitioner in C.M.P. No. 7472 of 1949 but ordered the eviction of the petitioner in C.M.P. No. 7678. There were two appeals, one by the landlord and another by the petitioner in C.M.P. No. 7678 of 1949. Both the appeals were heard together by the Chief Judge of the Court of Small Causes who directed both the tenants to deliver possession of the respective portions in their possession. The two tenants have f