JUDGMENT :- The plaintiffs in O. S. No. 44 of 1954, on the file of the District Munsiffs Court, Triuvallur, sued to recover possession of immoveable properties described in the plaint schedules B to H. The suit properties originally belonged to one Namasivaya Chetti who died on 17-6-1920, leaving behind his widow Ammayco Animal. Animayee Animal died on 7-11-1953. The plaintiffs claim to be the reversioners entitled to succeed to the state of Namasivaya after the death of Ammayee Ammal who, according to them, succeeded only to a limited estate.

The relationship of the plaintiffs to the deceased Namasivaya is that they are the fathers brothers grandsons of Namasivaya. The 13th defendant in the suit is also related to Namasivaya in the same manner and in the same degree. The plaintiffs claimed that they along with the 13th defendant were entitled to succeed to the suit properties which, they alleged, belonged originally to Namasivaya and then devolved upon Ammayee Ammal as a limited heir under the Hindu law.

The first defendant in the suit is, also a Gnai or a sapinda of the late Namasivaya. He is Namasivayas fathers brothers sons grandson. He is one degree more remote in his r