Venkataramana Rao, J.

1. This is an appeal from the judgment and decree of the learned Subordinate Judge of Ellore dismissing the plaintiffs suit on the ground that it was barred by limitation. The relevant facts may be shortly stated. The plaintiffs and the fourth defendant are the sons of one Varada Venkataramanayya. During his lifetime Varada Venkataramanayya as manager of his family entered into a partnership with defendants 1 to 3 for the carrying on of a mill business known as Gopalakrishna Rice Mill. He died on the 12th November, 1927, without adjusting his accounts with the partnership. This suit has been laid by the plaintiffs who were admittedly minors on the 29th October, 1931, for a declaration that the partnership which their father carried on with defendants 1 to 3 must be deemed to have been dissolved on the 12th November, 1927, and for taking an account of the partnership and for payment of such sums as maybe found due and payable appertaining to their fathers share. The main defence was one of limitation. The suit admittedly was instituted more than three years from the date of the death of Venkataramanayya. In the absence of an agreement to the contrary, th