1. The unsuccessful plaintiff is the appellant.

2. The plaintiff filed the suit for declaration and injunction or in the alternative recovery of possession. The case of the plaintiff/appellant was that he purchased the suit property from the second defendant, who is none other than his mother-in-law, for a valuable consideration under a registered sale deed dated 2.6.1974. The first defendant is the wife of the plaintiff and the third defendant is the daughter of the second defendant. The property was purchased by the plaintiff from out of his income from military service and as he was in military service, he allowed his mother-in-law and sister-in-law to stay alongwith his wife in the suit property. Since the relationship between the plaintiff and his wife got strained, the defendants refused to vacate the property and also disputed the title of the plaintiff and therefore, the suit was filed for the above relief.

3. The defendants filed written statement stating that though the property was purchased in the name of the second defendant, it belonged to her husband and after purchasing the vacant site, the husband of the second defendant constructed a house and he died i