The Chief Justice.-These two appeals arise out of the same suit in O.S. No. 12 of 1945 originally instituted in the Court of the District Judge, Bellary and thereafter transferred to the file of the Court of the Subordinate Judge, Bellary and numbered as O.S. No. 3 of 1947. A.S. No. 739 is by the plaintiffs and A.S. No. 758 by the first defendant. The suit was for partition of immoveable and moveable properties and connected reliefs. The first plaintiff is the widow of one Rao Bahadur Papayya Setty who died on 21st October, 1937. She was his second wife. The second plaintiff is his son and defendants 2 and 3 are his daughters by the first plaintiff. He had also by her two other daughters, namely, one Saras-watamma (P.W.3) married on the date of the institution of the suit and one Triveni who died before suit. By his first wife Papayya Setty had two sons, namely, the first defendant and one Seetharama Setty. After his death, the members of the family continued to be joint till the end of August, 1940, when Seetharama Setty left the family taking a quarter share of the family properties. On 28th August,. 1940, Seetharama Setty executed what is styled a deed of relinquishment