Pandrang Row, J.

1. This is an appeal by defendants 1 and 3 to 6 from the decree of the Subordinate Judge of Cuddalore dated 11th October, 1937, in O.S. No. 4 of 1933, a suit to recover mesne profits for fasli 1333 in respect of certain properties together with interest thereon. There was an earlier suit between the parties which related to these very properties for cancelling a certain lease granted in respect of them by the plaintiffs great-grandmother (second defendant) on the 8th of. August, 1923, for three years in favour of the first defendant. The properties in question belonged to the plaintiff who was. then a minor under the testamentary guardianship of the second defendant, the great-grandmother who had been appointed to manage the properties by the will of the plaintiffs father, one Thangaswami, dated 6th July, 1915. The testator died a few days later and in the previous suit there was no dispute as to the genuineness of the will. That suit was decreed and the appeal from the decree of the first Court was dismissed by the High Court on 30th August, 1932. There was some attempt made to take the matter to the Privy Council but the idea was finally abandoned and the