Kumaraswamy Sastri, J.

1. This is a suit by the plaintiff for a declaration that the property mentioned in the plaint belongs to her, for possession of the property from the defendant, for the recovery of arrears of, rent and for mesne profits.

2. The plaint as amended sets out that the property set out in the plaint belonged to one Sandar Ramalinga Mudaliar who died on the 15th of December 1903, leaving a daughter Gnanasundarammal who obtained Letters of Administration on the 14th of March 1905, such letters being granted after contest by the reversioners, that by a registered deed of release dated the 9th of December 1905, the reversioners, to the estate including the defendants father who also represented the defendant released their interest in the properties left by Ramalinga Mudaliar in favour of his daughter Gnanasundarammal, that Gnanasundarammal transferred, the suit property to one Samarapuri Mudaliar on the 21st of February 1910 by a deed which, though called a deed of gift was for consideration and necessity, that the said deed was attested by the defendants father in token of his assent to the transaction, that Samarapuri Mudaliar mortgaged the suit property to o