Varadachariar, J.

1. This appeal arises out of a suit instituted by the predecessor-in-title of respondents 1 to 5 for obtaining a declaration that he was the full owner of the suit properties and for setting aside an order passed on 14th September, 1931, dismissing a claim petition that he had filed. The suit properties belonged to a joint Hindu family which consisted of five brothers and the sons of four of them. Defendants 3, 4, 5 and 6 in the present suit are four of the brothers; another brother Sundararaja Aiyar had died before suit. Defendants 7 to 12 are the sons of four of the brothers. The appellants who were defendants 1 and 2 in the lower Court had obtained a decree for money payable by the five brothers personally and from out of the properties of the joint family in the hands of the five brothers and their sons. In execution of that decree, the appellants attached the interests of the sons in the joint family properties. This attachment which was made on 15th March, 1930, was advisedly limited to the interests of the sons, because, in the meanwhile, the five brothers had been adjudicated insolvents and their interests were being administered in insolvency. The