WALLACE
Sri Paramahamsa Sriranga – Appellant
Versus
Sri Paramahamsa Ahobila Jeer – Respondent
Wallace, J.
1. This Revision Petition is against the order of the Subordinate Judge of Trichinopoly cancelling a temporary injunction granted by the District Munsif, Srirangem in O.S. No. 430 of 1924, on his file. The plaint in that suit was filed by the head of the Tengalai Mutt at Srirangam and the principal defendant is the Jeer of the Ahobila Mutt; the other defendants are the trustees of the Srirangam Temple. The general relief claimed in the plaint is that the Jeer of Ahobila Mutt should be restrained from bringing into the Srirangam Temple certain paraphernalia and emblems pertaining to his office some of which bear the Vadagalai Namam, when he proposes to enter the temple for the purpose of worship. The trustees are made parties because they have by a resolution permitted him to enter accompanied by these emblems. The plaintiffs contentions as I read the plaint are mainly two. First, that such entry involving the introduction of Vadagalai Namams is opposed to usage and tradition, is offensive to the worshippers in the plaint temple which is claimed to be exclusively Tengalai, is a sacrilege to the Deity, and this is therefore a breach of trust by the trustees whose d
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