Pandrang Row, J.

1. This is an appeal from the decree of the Subordinate Judge of Devakottah dated 22nd February, 1932, in O.S. No. 198 of 1930 on his file. The suit was one instituted by the two plaintiffs to recover nearly Rs. 13,000 from defendants 1 to 4. The suit claim was based on a document dated 2nd February, 1926, Ex. A. That document was brought about as the result of an arrangement arrived at between the plaintiffs on the one hand and the fifth defendant on the other immediately after the death of the sister of the fifth defendant who had been married to the first plaintiff who was then a minor. In fact the case of the plaintiffs was that disputes arose about the properties that had been given to this lady Valliammai Achi at the time of her marriage between the first plaintiff and the fifth defendant, each claiming the money as his. This dispute arose before the corpse was removed from the house of the first plaintiff and a number of caste men and relations acted as panchayatdars and pronounced their opinion in accordance with which the document Ex. A was executed by the fifth defendant and the second plaintiff on behalf of the then minor first plaintiff and attes